Rick Bavera

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King Leopold's Ghost

by Adam Hochschild

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Rick’s Quotes

“Hodges has read there are wells in Iceland so deep you can drop a stone down them and never hear the splash. He thinks some human souls are like that.”
― Stephen King, Mr. Mercedes

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“It is not the lie that passes through the mind, but the lie that sinks in and settles in it, that does the hurt.”
― Francis Bacon, The Essays

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“People can be stunningly unobservant.”
― Stephen King, Mr. Mercedes

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“Judges ought to remember that their office is to interpret law, and not to make law, or give law.”
― Francis Bacon, The Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral, Including also his Apophthegms, Elegant Sentences and Wisdom of the Ancients

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“Never underestimate a man who is defending his home.”
― Matthew Palmer, The American Mission

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