“The food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that we can bear to bite it.”

— H. Rider Haggard , book She: A History of Adventure

She (1887), CHAPTER XVII, THE BALANCE TURNS

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English writer of adventure novels 1856–1925

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