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Peter Brownrigg Quotes

Six of the best book quotes from Peter Brownrigg
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“The situation was desperate, but with each narrow escape I was getting more and more weary of the whole business. I just wanted this wild adventure to end, even if it ended in capture.”
Geoffrey Trease
author
Cue for Treason
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Peter Brownrigg
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being tired
escape
desperation
capture
giving in
concepts
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“The Devil has a great reputation for destroying what honest men would be glad to see out of the way!”
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“I wanted something to take my mind off homesickness and the fear of death or prison. So I went- yes, and paid another penny for a stool to rest my weary bones, and yet another penny (reckless extravagance!) for a portion of hot roast mutton on a skewer.”
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“I’d always wanted to see the outside world, I’d always wanted adventure, and now I was going to get it with a vengeance.”
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“Some people think, because I’m not very big, that I’m not very strong.”
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“And Heaven help the man who puts a stone wall round them and calls them his- even if he has money and men in livery and a ‘Sir’ in front of his name.”

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