"Give me the handling of a horse for twenty minutes, and I'll tell you what sort of a groom he has had."

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Source : Anna Sewell (2012). “Black Beauty”, p.171, OUP Oxford

Anna Sewell

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“True love bears all, endures all and triumphs!”
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