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H. Rider Haggard _ Allan Quatermain
...religion which is nothing more of less than sun-worship of a pronounced and highly developed character.
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H. Rider Haggard _ Allan Quatermain
...minds carefully drilled and educated out of any originality or self-resource that nature may have endowed them with.
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H. Rider Haggard _ Allan Quatermain
Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt. A vainglory is it, and like a northern light, comes but to fade and leave the sky more dark."
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H. Rider Haggard _ Allan Quatermain
He was quite merry and gay, he clapped his hands and warbled snatches of French songs as the grim dead warriors went 'splash' into the running waters to carry a message of death and defiance to their kindred a hundred miles below.
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H. Rider Haggard _ Allan Quatermain
if the moths would always carefully avoid the candle, how few burnt wings there would be!
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H. Rider Haggard _ Allan Quatermain
and no more dreadful fate can befall a man than to become the tool of an unscrupulous woman, or indeed of any woman. There is but one end to it: when he is broken, or has served her purpose, he is thrown away -- turned out on the world to hunt for his lost self-respect.
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H. Rider Haggard _ Allan Quatermain
I am wondering,' I answered, 'on what principle it is arranged that some people should find beautiful queens to fall in love with them, while others find nobody at all, or worse than nobody; and I am also wondering how many brave men's lives this night's work will cost.' It was rather nasty of me, perhaps, but somehow all the feelings do not evaporate with age, and I could not help being a little jealous of my old friend's luck. Vanity, my sons; vanity of vanities!
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H. Rider Haggard _ Allan Quatermain
for beauty, dependent as it is to a certain extent upon the imagination, is never so beautiful as when it is half hid.
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H. Rider Haggard _ Allan Quatermain
After all, as Mr Mackenzie said, it was odd that three men, each of whom possessed many of those things that are supposed to make life worth living -- health, sufficient means, and position, etc. -- should from their own pleasure start out upon a wild-goose chase, from which the chances were they never would return. But then that is what Englishmen are, adventurers to the backbone; and all our magnificent muster-roll of colonies, each of which will in time become a great nation, testify to the extraordinary value of the spirit of adventure which at first sight looks like a mild form of lunacy. 'Adventurer' -- he that goes out to meet whatever may come.
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H. Rider Haggard _ Allan Quatermain
It was melancholy in the extreme, but, as Good said, it might have been worse, for we might have had 'to bury ourselves'. I pointed out that this would have been a difficult feat, but I knew what he meant.
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H. Rider Haggard _ Allan Quatermain
Although she was at an age when in England girls are in the schoolroom and come down to dessert, this 'child of the wilderness' had more courage, discretion, and power of mind than many a woman of mature age nurtured in idleness and luxury, with minds carefully drilled and educated out of any originality or self-resource that nature may have endowed them with.
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H. Rider Haggard _ Allan Quatermain
I am a Frenchman. Need I say, messieurs, that I admire beauty? Nay, I adore the fair. Messieurs, we admire all the roses in a garden, but we pluck one. I plucked one, and alas, messieurs, it pricked my finger.
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