“Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.”
Robert Louis Stevenson book An Inland Voyage
An Inland Voyage (1878).
“Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.”
— Tamora Pierce, book Lady Knight
Source: Lady Knight
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