# Quote — T. H. White, Mistress Masham's Repose

> When she (Maria) had come abreast of the little island of Mistress Masham's Repose, she began to feel piratical. Swouns and Slids, she said to herself, but you could slap her vitals if she did not careen there, and perhaps dig up some buried treasure while about it.

- Author: [T. H. White](https://www.leafyquotes.com/t-h-white.md)
- Book: [Mistress Masham's Repose](https://www.leafyquotes.com/t-h-white/mistress-mashams-repose.md)
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> And shall the Schoolmen die?
>
> And shall the Schoolmen die?
>
> Five hundred men of Lilliput
>
> Will know the reason why.

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> She (Maria) lived in an enormous house in the wilds of Northamptonshire, which was about four times longer than Buckingham Palace, but was falling down.

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> He (the Professor) was a failure but did his best to hide it. One of his failings was that he could barely write, except in a twelfth century hand, in Latin, with abbreviations.

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