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It is better to go in the dark when the road must pass a lion and there is no other road.
Robert E. Howard
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Robert E. Howard
Age: 30 †
Born: 1906
Born: January 22
Died: 1936
Died: June 11
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While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that veils it.
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Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
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Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet.
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