I used to regret that bailiffs were such low people, but now I rejoice at it.

If they had been of a different order they might have proven unpleasant here." "You are right, my dear Brummel," interposed Munchausen.

"This life is far preferable to that in the other sphere.

Any of you gentlemen who happen to have had the pleasure of reading my memoirs must have been struck with the tremendous difficulties that encumbered my progress.

If I wished for a rare liqueur for my luncheon, a liqueur served only at the table of an Oriental potentate, more jealous of it than of his one thousand queens, I had to raise armies, charter ships, and wage warfare in which feats of incredible valor had to be performed by myself alone and unaided to secure the desired thimbleful.