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There are things and there are faces which, when felt or seen for the…

Quote byH. Rider Haggard · 1856–1925

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Colonel Quaritch, V. C.: A Tale of Country Life (1888), CHAPTER I, HAROLD QUARITCH MEDITATES.

English (original)

There are things and there are faces which, when felt or seen for the first time, stamp themselves upon the mind like a sun image on a sensitized plate and there remain unalterably fixed.

— H. Rider Haggard

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