<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=452192" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lack Of Haute Couture</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Beware Sam Vimes; annoyed by a fantailer hat, <br>jodhpurs and a nervous smile; Sam took on the <br>legendary Jane Austen, author of world renowned <br>Pride and Prejudice, to reform her into a modern <br>writer, criticized the flimsy attire of her five girls </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sending them to Florence Nightingale nursing, open <br>a Milliner’s shop to put an end to their small talk, marry <br>Mr Collins the curate shunned by a fastidious Elizabeth <br>and deleting Mr Darcy; I must agree, Captain Carrot <br>lords it over all other hero’s in likeability, magical </div><div style="margin:10px 0">powers and nobility to withstand pressure to become <br>king, though he knows his ancestry, being a superhero; <br>the intrepid commander sees nervous smiles as dead <br>giveaway of disagreeable intent and jodhpurs means <br>burgled silverware seen in trousers outlined in teapots </div><div style="margin:10px 0">This offensive ensemble is described with inimitable <br>Pratchettian aplomb: ‘a presumably self-inflicted triple <br>misfortune’ - oh yes, I have also been caught wearing <br>self-inflicted triple - even quadruple - misfortunes of all <br>kinds, suffering from lack of haute couture </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I mean to go on suffering this way, it is much<br>more fun than being elegant all the time! </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Snuff – Terry Pratchett, Doubleday 2011<br>pp.243,244</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Margaret+Alice+Second">Margaret Alice Second</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=452192" data-title="Lack Of Haute Couture de Margaret Alice Second" data-description="Beware Sam Vimes; annoyed by a fantailer hat, jodhpurs and a nervous smile; Sam took on the legendary Jane Austen, author of world renowned Pride and Prejudice, to reform her into a modern writer, criticized the flimsy attire of her five girls..."></div> </div> </div>

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