Holly

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“Your notion of what dignity demands is so different from a Roman's. A Roman noble might swallow a dozen insults which a Sarmatian would kill for, but he'd be outraged at the suggestion he could rest in a stable.”
― Gillian Bradshaw, Island of Ghosts

tags: sarmatians

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“A nationalist will say that “it can’t happen here,” which is the first step toward disaster. A patriot says that it could happen here, but that we will stop it.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

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“Count Felix von Luckner once told me: 'One cannot go out in search of adventure and always find it. Adventure will find you--if it comes at all.' I must confess that I disregarded this advice and went out to meet adventure half-way.”
― Schuyler Jones, Under the African Sun

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“There were few Europeans in the Zambezi region where we hunted. Aside from Dick and Bill the only other European we saw was a Frenchman who was sitting on the verandah of a hut in Sesheke reading Gone With the Wind. What he was doing there other than reading, I never discovered.”
― Schuyler Jones, A Stranger Abroad: A Memoir

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“Of course it’s not simple. Who said it was simple? But you know what? Lots of loose ends don’t ever get tied up. Play the hand you’re dealt. Move on.”
― Michael Punke, The Revenant

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