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Book: King Solomon's Mines
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H. Rider Haggard _ King Solomon's Mines
Love her who is present, for be sure she who is absent is false to thee;
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H. Rider Haggard _ King Solomon's Mines
Women's eyes are always bright, whatever the colour,
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H. Rider Haggard _ King Solomon's Mines
there is no journey upon this earth that a man may not make if he sets his heart to it. There is nothing, Umbopa, that he cannot do, there are no mountains he may not climb, there are no deserts he cannot cross, save a mountain and a desert of which you are spared the knowledge, if love leads him and he holds his life in his hands counting it as nothing, ready to keep it or lose it as Heaven above may order.
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H. Rider Haggard _ King Solomon's Mines
It is far. But there is no journey upon this earth that a man may not make if he sets his heart to it.
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H. Rider Haggard _ King Solomon's Mines
I, Jos? da Silvestra, who am now dying of hunger in the little cave here no snow is on the north side of the nipple of the southernmost of the two mountains I have named Sheba's Breasts, write this in the year 1590 with a cleft bone upon a remnant of my raiment, my blood being the ink.
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H. Rider Haggard _ King Solomon's Mines
I am, to be honest, a bit of a coward, and certainly in no way given to fighting, though somehow it has often been my lot to get into unpleasant positions, and to be obliged to shed man's blood. But I have always hated it, and kept my own blood as undiminished in quantity as possible, sometimes by a judicious use of my heels.
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H. Rider Haggard _ King Solomon's Mines
as I grow older I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me-while
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H. Rider Haggard _ King Solomon's Mines
A sharp spear needs no polish.
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H. Rider Haggard _ King Solomon's Mines
For to my mind, however beautiful a view may be, it requires the presence of man to make it complete, but perhaps that is because I have lived so much in the wilderness, and therefore know the value of civilisation, though to be sure it drives away the game. The Garden of Eden, no doubt, looked fair before man was, but I always think that it must have been fairer when Eve adorned it. To
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H. Rider Haggard _ King Solomon's Mines
Presently Good came up to Sir Henry and myself. "Good-bye, you fellows," he said; "I am off with the right wing according to orders; and so I have come to shake hands, in case we should not meet again, you know," he added significantly. We shook hands in silence, and not without the exhibition of as much emotion as Anglo-Saxons are wont to show.
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H. Rider Haggard _ King Solomon's Mines
Thank Heaven, here you are, Quatermain! I can't quite make out what Ignosi wants to do. It seems that though we have beaten off the attack, Twala is now receiving large reinforcements, and is showing a disposition to invest us, with the view of starving us out." "That's awkward.
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H. Rider Haggard _ King Solomon's Mines
Then there remains the most interesting subject-that, as it is, has only been touched on incidentally-of the magnificent system of military organisation in force in that country, which, in my opinion, is much superior to that inaugurated by Chaka in Zululand, inasmuch as it permits of even more rapid mobilisation, and does not necessitate the employment of the pernicious system of enforced celibacy. Lastly,
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