It is curious to look back and realize upon what trivial and apparently coincidental circumstances great events frequently turn as easily and naturally as a door on its hinges.
Wealth is good, and if it comes our way we will take it; but a gentleman does not sell himself for wealth. - H. Rider Haggard
Wealth is good, and if it comes our way we will take it; but a gentleman does not sell himself for wealth.
- H. Rider Haggard
Truly time should be measured by events, and not by the lapse of hours. - H. Rider Haggard
Truly time should be measured by events, and not by the lapse of hours.
It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more cynical and hardened we become… - H. Rider Haggard
It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more cynical and hardened we become…
Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been, … - H. Rider Haggard
Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been, …
Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all ha… - H. Rider Haggard
Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all ha…
There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature. - H. Rider Haggard
There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.
There are things and there are faces which, when felt or seen for the first time, stamp themselves upon the mind like a sun image on a sensitized pla… - H. Rider Haggard
There are things and there are faces which, when felt or seen for the first time, stamp themselves upon the mind like a sun image on a sensitized pla…
How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star? - H. Rider Haggard
How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?
Man's cleverness is almost indefinite, and stretches like an elastic band, but human nature is like an iron ring. You can go round and round it, you … - H. Rider Haggard
Man's cleverness is almost indefinite, and stretches like an elastic band, but human nature is like an iron ring. You can go round and round it, you …
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