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The food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that we can bear to bite it.

H. Rider Haggard

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H. Rider Haggard
Age: 68 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 22
Died: 1925
Died: May 14
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Henry Rider Haggard
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Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.
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Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?
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Truly time should be measured by events, and not by the lapse of hours.
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Wealth is good, and if it comes our way we will take it but a gentleman does not sell himself for wealth.
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Mistrust all men, and slay him whom thou mistrustest overmuch and as for women, flee from them, for they are evil, and in the end will destroy thee.
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