You can put it aside and let it rust if you like, but other nations won't follow your good example.

Then the time comes when you must use it, and you find the only men you've got to handle it are the men you can't trust--the bandit instead of the trained soldier.

No! Put the best men you can find to finance, I say,' and with that he said good-bye.
'Why doesn't he drop them altogether ?' asked Fielding with considerable irritation when Mrs.Willoughby informed him of Drake's intention to renew his acquaintance with the Mallinsons.
'It would only make matters worse if he did,' replied she.

'Clarice would be certain to count any falling off of her friends as a new grievance against her husband.' 'Friends ?' 'He is willing to take his place as one.' 'He will find it singularly uninteresting.

Friendship between a man and a woman!' He shrugged his shoulders; then he laughed to himself.