Holly

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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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“I wondered why she craved this knowledge and found myself remembering that she was, after all, an anthropologist.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

tags: anthropology

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“The principled man is merely one whose ancestors were ruthlessly unprincipled, affording him the option of acting upon fine sentiments.”
― Lynn Cullen, Mrs. Poe

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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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“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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