“It is easier to destroy knowledge, Ignosi, than to gather it.”

— H. Rider Haggard , book King Solomon's Mines

Source: King Solomon's Mines (1885), Chapter 15, "Good Falls Sick"

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English writer of adventure novels 1856–1925

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