G.A. Henty Quotes

#1. I do believe you would be perfectly happy shut up in your study with your rolls of manuscript all your life, without seeing another human being save a servant to bring you in bread and fruit and water twice a day.

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#2. Excuse me, Scopus," Beric said quietly, "I am perfectly ready to fight with this bragadocio, and challenge him to a contest; a few hard knocks will do neither of us any harm, therefore let us go into the school and have it out, It is much better so than to have perpetual quarrelling.

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#3. a rogue can generally express himself better than an honest man.

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#4. No one is strong in himself, but God gives strength.

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#5. this is a time when we must all take sides for or against the king.

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#6. So that there is enough to keep life together, it matters little what it is.

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#7. Women are always passionately certain that they are right, and neither counsel nor entreaty can get them to believe that there can be any other side to a case than that which they take.

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#8. How is a boy's mind to expand if he does not ask questions, and who should be so well able to answer his questions as his father?

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#9. They say troubles never comes singly,

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#10. friends of the king can no longer be grip hands with friends of the Commons.

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#11. I fear not," Hamilcar said gravely, shaking his head. "It seems to be the fate of all nations, that as they grow in wealth so they lose their manly virtues. With wealth comes corruption, indolence, a reluctance to make sacrifices, and a weakening of the feeling of patriotism.

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#12. Whether success will crown the effort, or whether God wills it otherwise, it is not for man to discuss; it is enough that the work is there, and it is our duty to do it.

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#13. everyone in the land has an equal chance. In war the bravest becomes a general, in peace the cleverest is chosen as a councillor.

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#14. Men are foolish creatures sometimes, even the wisest of them." Marion

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#15. One don't like setting out to help to bring a man to the gallus when you have got his money in your pocket.

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#16. Men make their own happiness, and a man may be respected even though only a slave.

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#17. It is just as easy to be polite as to be rude, and men are served better for love than for fear.

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#18. His father had been so seriously wounded, at Vimiera, that he was invalided home and placed on half pay; and in the same battle Captain O'Grady lost his left arm but, on its being cured, returned to his place in the regiment.

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#19. We cannot go into court with merely suspicions; we must get facts.

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#20. Our long wanderings have made a man out of him, too. They have not only strengthened his frame and hardened his constitution, but they have given stability to his character. He is thoughtful and prudent, and his advice will always be valuable, while of his courage I have no doubt.

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