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  • West Africa today is just a quarry of paving stones for Hell, and those stones were cemented in place with

    - Mary Henrietta Kingsley
    British  writer  and  columnist.  He  is  best  known  as  a  humorist, and also writes on jazz.

  • You think that you are Ann's suitor; that you are the pursuer and she the pursued† Fool: it is you who are pursued, the marked down quarry, the destined prey.

    - George Bernard Shaw
      JohnTanner to Octavius Robinson. Man and Superman, act 2.

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