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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.

H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.1058, Delphi Classics

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

H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.13163, Delphi Classics

Laughter and bitterness are often the veils with which a sore heart wraps its weakness from the world.

H. Rider Haggard (2001). “All Adventure: Cleopatra”, p.103, Essential Library

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.

H. Rider Haggard, Arthur Conan Doyle, Lin Carter, Rudyard Kipling, Eando Binder (2014). “The Lost World MEGAPACK ®: 22 Modern and Classic Tales”, p.421, Wildside Press LLC

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

H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.9483, Delphi Classics

I have never observed that the religious are more eager to die than the rest of us poor mortals.

H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.10932, Delphi Classics

Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.

H. Rider Haggard (1999). “She”, p.102, Regnery Gateway

We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.

H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.1130, Delphi Classics

My death is very near to me, and of this I am glad, for I desire to pursue the quest in other realms, as it has been promised to me that I shall do.

H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.6607, Delphi Classics