“Sometimes a wild horse needs to feel that his rider is just a little bit wilder.”
Francesca Lia Block (1962) American children's writer
Source: Ruby
“A horse must be a bit mad to be a good cavalry mount, and its rider must be completely so.”
Source: The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great
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