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Quotes from King Solomon's Mines — H. Rider Haggard

1856–1925 England

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Everything has an end, if only you live long enough to see it.

King Solomon's Mines (1885)

It is easier to destroy knowledge, Ignosi, than to gather it.

King Solomon's Mines (1885)

I am not a nervous man in a general way, and very little troubled with superstitions, of which I have lived to see the folly.

King Solomon's Mines (1885)

Altogether, a more miserable trio than we were that evening it would have been difficult to discover; and our only comfort lay in the reflection that we were exceedingly fortunate to be there to feel miserable, instead of being stretched dead upon the plain, as so many thousands of brave men were that night, who had risen well and strong in the morning.

King Solomon's Mines (1885)

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