If the reality programmes that swamp our television channels is causing you to reach for the Concise Oxford English Dictionary, in the sheer hope that inundating your brain with polysyllabic words will push out all the other useless information it has gleaned from 10 minutes of TOWIE, why not turn the TV off, step away from the dictionary (it should only be used as a point of reference, attempting to read the dictionary like a novel will make for an banal and concerning read) and pick up one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's lesser knowns: The Complete Brigadier Gerard. Available at any good bookstore, but for those of us with little time, available on amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Brigadier-Stories-Canongate-Classics/dp/1847679196/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1353172081&sr=1-3
Hopefully, the Brigadier's motto will rub off on you:
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