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“Thus did people live who had such an income; and in a land where each man’s pay, age, and position are printed in a book, that all may read, it is hardly worth while to play at pretence in word or deed.”
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“In America, the native demoralises the English servant. In England, the servant educates the master.”
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“Now a polo-pony is like a poet. If he is born with a love for the game, he can be made.”
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“That’s a good man,” he said. “If all goes well I shall work him hard.” This was Jim Hawkins’s notion of the highest compliment one human being could pay another.
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