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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of crowds, especially to those who are unaccustomed to them.

— H. Rider Haggard A Tale of Three Lions (1887)

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We white people think that we know everything.

Child of Storm (1913)

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 plate and there remain unalterably fixed.

There is no such thing as magic, though there is such a thing as a knowledge of the secrets of nature.

She (1887)

Women love the last blow as well as the last word, and when they fight for love they are pitiless as a wounded buffalo.

Allan Quatermain (1887)

It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man.

The Holy Flower (1915)

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