"The active cavalry of Scythia is always followed, in their most distant and rapid incursions, by an adequate number of spare horses, who may be occasionally used, either to redouble the speed, or to satisfy the hunger, of the barbarians. Many are the resources of courage and poverty."

-- Edward Gibbon

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“we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I.”
“The idea of going around to somebody else's flat or house and sitting around in a comfy room and having a really good hi-fi system and listening to a whole album all the way through, then chatting for a few minutes, then maybe putting another album on . . . does that happen today?”
“I ain't sleeping. I'm just taking a good look at the insides of my eyelids.”
“Nathaniel Philbrick's 'In the Heart of the Sea' has rightfully taken its place as a classic for its literary merits. It has a special place in the cannibalism canon as well.”
“Country music is the combination of African and European folk songs coming together and doing a little waltz right here in the American south. They came together at some cotillion, and somebody snuck a black person into the room, and he danced with a white lady, and music was born.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“I hope the two of you will descend from your love bubble long enough to learn something today," he sniped cuttingly and the other kids snickered. Embarrassed, I ducked my head to avoid eye contact with them. "It's all right, sir," Xavier replied. "The bubble's been engineered to allow us to learn from within it.”

Source : Alexandra Adornetto (2011). “Hades”, p.16, Macmillan
“Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.”
“Think highly of yourself because the world takes you at your own estimate.”

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