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"My dear fellow, that's really first class! I just can't conceive how you do it at all. I imagine you're going to a Fancy Dress Ball?"
Charles Causley, Colonel Fazackerley Butterworth-Toast, poem.

NEFFEX — One Shot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iihaR-lrNw8

"The wise do not get angry when they are driven into a corner, kings do." 
Tripitaka [Nagasena].

"How are you, you paralytic?"
Gaius Petronius Arbiter, The Satyricon, Chapter 131.

"BOLD. Bold as a miller’s shirt, which every day takes a rogue by the collar."
Francis Grose, Dictionary of the vulgar tongue.

The fall must be as precipitous, after all, as the heights that their megalomania could allow to climb.

Beyoncé — Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txWV6DznBZw

Varric: Well, think about staying, Kirkwall's boring withou you.

"What I possess, I see lying in a far distance, And what I lost, has grown real and undying."
[Was ich besitze, seh’ich wie im Weiten, Und was verschand, wird mir su Wirklichkeiten.]
J. W. von Goethe, Faust, Zueignung (Dedication), 1808.

"The calumny is a little wind, a very gentle little breeze which numbly, softly, lightly, kindly, begins to whisper....
And the miserable one who is defamed, degraded, trampled, scourged by the public opinion fortunately dies."
[La calunnia è un venticello un’auretta assai gentile che insensibile, sottile, leggermente, dolcemente, incomincia 
a sussurrar.... E il meschino calunniato, avvilito, calpestato, sotto il pubblico flagello per gran sorte va a crepar.]
Rossini, La calunnia (The Calumny), in The Barber of Seville, or The Useless Precaution, 1816 [Don Basilio].

"Your fame is spreading like Basilico's ointment." 
James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, 1.1.25 [Poppypap's a passport out; i.e. adoption by Gamlen Amell.]