“As seen in my loneliness, there was this difference between the Bible and the newspapers. The one reminded one that, apart from God, my life was but a bubble of air, and it bade me remember my Creator; the other fostered arrogance and loneliness.”

Source: Quotes:, Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1909), p. 254

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