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Updated: June 22, 2025
I do not speak of the humbugs who deliberately exploit the credulity of fools. I speak of the sincere believers people like my dear old friend W.T. Stead, who was the most extraordinary combination of wisdom and moonshine I have ever known.
Midday came, and not a sign of the Prussians. At one o'clock, at two, it was the same, and a reaction of lassitude and doubt began to prevail among the troops. Derisive jeers were heard at the expense of the generals: perhaps they had seen their shadow on the wall; they should be presented with a pair of spectacles. A pretty set of humbugs they were, to have caused all that trouble for nothing!
Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching. In a world so full of pain it would seem as if people could not be so foolish, or practitioners so knavish, as to sport with men's and women's and children's lives by their professional humbugs.
Rose felt flattered by the admiration her fine rooms evidently caused. "You see," cried she, "I have left Paul; he bothered me awfully, and ended by half starving me." "Why, you are joking; he came here to-day, and said he was earning twelve thousand francs a year." "Twelve thousand humbugs. A fellow that will take five hundred francs from an old scarecrow he never met before is "
I have had to do with Germans in the way of business, honest and straightforward they are pretty sure to be, but when with their simplicity and frankness they are sharpers and humbugs as well, they are the worst rogues of all. Your husband is taking advantage of you. As soon as pressure is brought to bear on him he shams dead; he means to be more the master under your name than in his own.
They applied to Protestant teachers and Protestant books, and received too often the answer that the Gospel had nothing to do with art art was either Pagan or Popish; and as for the centuries before the Reformation, they and all in them belonged utterly to darkness and the pit. As for the heroes of early Christianity, they were madmen or humbugs; their legends, devilish and filthy puerilities.
Baxter had pronounced the "Great Jurists" great humbugs, and her husband, although he pretended to find the "Lives" very interesting, was secretly inclined to agree with her. So he hesitated. The young woman, evidently noticing his hesitation, added: "If you are engaged just now I shall wait. I came to see you on a matter of business, legal business."
He called the monkey all the lazy, idle, good-for-nothing swabs, lubbers, and humbugs possible, while the effect was droll in the extreme. At first the little animal chattered at him, then he shook his head, then he grew angry, and at last curled himself up, covering his head with his long arms, and howled piteously. "That's a-touching of him up, sir," said Billy. "He knows it, you see.
I soon, however, discovered that the people of Blarney Botherum were the greatest humbugs under the sun.
I won't stand it any longer." "Stand what?" enquired Mr Bristles, knitting his brows. "Your nonsensical praises of each other your boastings of Sticklebacks, and Snooksbys, and Bankses; a set of mere humbugs and blockheads! And even this foolish woman, with her femininities and re-invigorating society, I believe to be a regular quack.
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