"A few strange gentlemen attitudinise in Westminster on
principle, but these men would cut capers of principle in any
case, like Mr. Snodgrass when he went skating."
Or _Mr. Winkle_ when he wrote verses.
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"In the Continental boat-trains the warning, '_Licht
linauslehnen_,' has not been removed from the windows....
Occasionally you see that '_Nicht linauslehnen_' has been
indignantly pasted over."--_Provincial Paper._
The latter is certainly a little more German than the other.
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