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Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.
(Chapter XIV)
"You can find good English inns left by accident everywhere, like fossils," explained the Professor. "I once found a decent place in the West End."
(Chapter VIII)
"There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well say that it is poetical to be sea-sick. Being sick is a revolt. Both being sick and being rebellious may be the wholesome thing on certain desperate occasions; but I'm hanged if I can see why they are poetical. Revolt in the abstract is--revolting. It's mere vomiting."
(Chapter I)