Talbot Mundy Quotes

#1. What is beyond the darkness? Some say chaos and darker night. I say sunrise.

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#2. Fear is an ugly weapon, sahib, whose hilt is more dangerous than its blade.

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#3. But he spoke English better than I, he having mastered it, whereas I was only born to its careless use.

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#4. For a government,' said the god, 'is nothing but a mirror of your minds--tyrannical for tyrants--hypocritical for hypocrites --corrupt for those who are indifferent--extravagant and wasteful for the selfish--strong and honorable only toward honest men.

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#5. I hate to feel squeamish almost as much as I hate to sit and think, both being sure-fire ways of getting into trouble. The only safe thing I know is to follow opportunity and leave the man behind to do the worrying. More people die lingering, ghastly deaths in arm-chairs and in bed than anywhere.

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#6. Good women don't reform bad men, they only irritate them.

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#7. Silence is the only safe answer to Silence.

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#8. A deed--who measures it? Who knows the limits of a mended wheel or reckons up the leagues it shall lay underfoot?--what burdens it shall bear?--whose destiny it shall await and serve?

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#9. If a man stole my dinner, I might let him run; but if he stole my horse, he and I and death would play hide-and-seek! ~~ Ranjoor Singh

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#10. Some of them will welcome me as small boys do a teacher, telling me the little secrets better to conceal the big ones.For I tell you, that secrets are not kept by being secretive;

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