I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
I'd learned my lesson.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.