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Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw…

Quote byH. Rider Haggard · 1856–1925

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: She (1887), Chapter 22, "Job Has a presentiment".

English (original)

Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and this many-coloured pigment of imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them doth agree with another!

— H. Rider Haggard

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