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“Good words do more than hard speeches, as the sunbeams, without any noise, will make the traveler cast off his cloak, which all the blustering winds could not do, but only make him bind it closer to him.”
Robert Leighton
“You seemed all brown and soft, just like a linnet,
Your errant hair had shadowed sunbeams in it,
And there shone all April
In your eyes.”
Robert Leighton
“No apology for keeping a mongrel is necessary. He is a good dog and a fair dog. Can more be said? He ought not to be maligned. I have known many a loveable mongrel. If he is kept clean, well housed, properly fed, and is of decent habit, he may be as true a companion as an aristocratic champion.”
Robert Leighton, The new Book of the Dog: A Comprehensive Natural History of British Dogs and Their Foreign Relatives, With Chapters on law, Breeding, Kennel Management, and Veterinary Treatment: 1
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“No woman or child was ever to be molested or carried away as captive, and all the spoil or plunder of war was to be equally divided.”
Robert Leighton, Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age
“The flower that follows the sun does so even on cloudy days”
Robert Leighton

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