Faculty Rank

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“Truth is his inspirer, and earnestness the polisher of his sentences. He could afford to lose his Sharp’s rifles, while he retained his faculty of speech,—a Sharp’s rifle of infinitely surer and longer range.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Pukka sahib or rank outsider—gentleman or bounder—and it’s accent, accent, all the way.”
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