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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 3530070, member: 199"] Love the Hornblower saga and have read the books more than once. Along those lines - Rafael Sabatini's Scaramouche with the opening line '[B]He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad[/B] and that was all his patrimony' The bolded section supposedly was carved on the Yale library along with other famous author quotes and all the scholars thought it was a wonderful line and wonder which great author had written it - when they discovered it was Sabatini a popular 'hack' they were rather embarrassed. He also wrote another great boys adventure 'Captain Blood'. And Baroness Orczy's Scarlet Pimpernel. All great escapist fun. [/QUOTE]