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“Only a keen sense of public duty restrains me from plugging you where you sit, you ineffable swine.”
― Sapper, The Final Count

“They were representative of the poorer type of clerk—the type which Woodbines its fingers to a brilliant orange; the type that screams insults at a football referee on Saturday afternoon. And yet to the close observer something more might be read on their faces: a greedy, hungry look, a shifty untrustworthy look—the look of those who are jealous of everyone better placed than themselves, but who are incapable of trying to better their own position except by the relative method of dragging back their more fortunate acquaintances; the look of little men dissatisfied not so much with their own littleness as with the bigness of other people.”
― Sapper, Bulldog Drummond Collection, Volume 1

“know”
― Sapper, The Bulldog Drummond Megapack: 15 Adventures

“The faults of women, children, servants, the weak, the indigent, and the ignorant are the faults of husbands, father, masters, the strong, the rich, and the learned." Wal!”
― Sapper, Bulldog Drummond: Premium 9 Book Collection

“it saves bother to get an animal to walk to the slaughterhouse rather than having to drag it there. And”
― Sapper, Bulldog Drummond: Premium 9 Book Collection