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"Robin Hood was also a terrorist ― but he had some style and a little class."
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Wilbur SmithWe are all mere insects caught in the web that the gods spin for us. — Wilbur Smith
"We are all mere insects caught in the web that the gods spin for us."
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Wilbur Addison Smith was a Rhodesian-born British-South African novelist specializing in historical fiction about international involvement in Southern Africa across four centuries.
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"Beware of your most implacable enemy — yourself."
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"Something always dies when the lion feeds — and yet there is meat for those that follow him."
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"They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy — just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it."
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"Should five slaves dictate to a king? If five baboons bark, must the black-maned lion tremble?"
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"When a traveller gets a thorn in his foot," Mbejane went on softly, "and he is wise, he plucks it out — and he is a fool, he leaves it and says, I will keep this thorn to prick me so that I will always remember the road upon which I have travelled. Nkosi, it is better to remember with pleasure than with pain."
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