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And no one should ever give their best performance for anything less than the highest possible price
Anna Chasovikovahar citeretfor 2 år siden
The offspring of a white man and a black woman is a mulatto; the mulatto and the black produce a sambo, from the mulatto and the white comes the quadroon, from the quadroon and the white the mustee, the child of a mustee by a white man is called a musteefino and the children of a musteefino will be free by law and will count as whites
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‘I am not in the habit of repeating private conversations’
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The most common cause of disease in gentlemen of your class, sir, is lack of exercise and bad diet. Most of what you eat, I may assert with some certainty, is at best rubbish, and at worst poison.’
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He had decided that Barry could not possibly be the medical Ghengis Khan of the colonial service that everybody said he was
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He is the kind of man who is as likely to die of bad temper as of one particular illness. He alienates everybody with his opinionated belligerence.
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My entire life has been a perpetual encounter with unforeseen accidents. Remain unruffled, or at least appear to be so
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Yet I am afraid of what lies before me, anxious at what I have left behind, and impatient of this moment of transition
Anna Chasovikovahar citeretfor 2 år siden
A polite enquiry concerning his medical studies from an unfortunate visitor drew forth a description of his new course on military surgery, giving more detailed information about gangrene and amputations than the company could possibly have wished to know
Anna Chasovikovahar citeretfor 2 år siden
Welcome aboard, James Miranda Barry. You’d be wasted as a woman. Join the men.’ Then they all laughed