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61 " Gold has at all times been considered the best of testimonies of good faith... "
― Rafael Sabatini , Captain Blood
62 " You often show yourself without any faculty of deductive reasoning. "
― Rafael Sabatini , Scaramouche (Scaramouche, #1)
63 " I hope no man will call me timorous; and yet I'ld as soon be called that as rash. "
― Rafael Sabatini , Captain Blood Returns
64 " If Mr. Blood had condescended to debate the matter with these ladies, he might have urged that having had his fill of wandering and adventuring, he was now embarked upon the career for which he had been originally intended and for which his studies had equipped him; that he was a man of medicine and not of war; a healer, not a slayer. "
65 " There was a great historian lost in Wolverstone. He had the right imagination that knows just how far it is safe to stray from the truth and just how far to colour it so as to change its shape for his own purposes. "
66 " In life we pay for the evil that in life we do. "
67 " And where are the other gentry that were taken?—the real leaders of this plaguey rebellion. Grey’s case explains their absence, I think. They are wealthy men that can ransom themselves. Here awaiting the gallows are none but the unfortunates who followed; those who had the honor to lead them go free. It’s a curious and instructive reversal of the usual way of things. Faith, it’s an uncertain world entirely! "
68 " He still had, you see, illusions about Christians. "
69 " Nació con el don de la risa y con la sensación de que el mundo estaba loco. Y ese era todo su patrimonio. "
― Rafael Sabatini
70 " I am not one of your repentant sinners, Kenneth. I have lived my life—God, what a life!—and as I have lived I shall die, unflinching and unchanged. Dare one to presume that a few hours spent in whining prayers shall atone for years of reckless dissoluteness? 'Tis a doctrine of cravens, who, having lacked in life the strength to live as conscience bade them, lack in death the courage to stand by that life's deeds. I am no such traitor to myself. "
― Rafael Sabatini , The Tavern Knight
71 " we are all too prone to judge—upon insufficient knowledge. "
72 " It was Pope Innocent III who placed in the hands of the church this terrible weapon of persecution, and who, by the awful severity of his own attitude towards liberty of conscience, of thought, and of expression, afforded to fanaticism and religious intolerance an example that was to be their merciless guide through centuries to come. "
― Rafael Sabatini , Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition
73 " Mind being the seat of the soul, and literature being the expression of the mind, literature, it follows, is the soul of an age, the surviving and immortal part of it; and "
― Rafael Sabatini , The Life of Cesare Borgia
74 " I admit that it is audacious," said Scaramouche. "But at your time of life you should have learnt that in this world nothing succeeds like audacity. "
75 " He vowed that the thought of her should continue ever before him to help him keep his hands as clean as a man might in this desperate trade upon which he was embarking. And so, although he might entertain no delusive hope of ever winning her for his own, of ever seeing her again, yet the memory of her was to abide in his soul as a bitter-sweet, purifying influence. The love that is never to be realized will often remain a man’s guiding ideal. "
76 " [Blood upon killing Levasseur] ‘I think that cancels the articles between us,’ he said. "
77 " Do you wonder that they will "
78 " A man may not fear to die, and yet be appalled by the form in which death comes to him. "
79 " [W]e are all savages under the cloak that civilization fashions for us. "
80 " Dragostea ce nu ajunge sa se materializeze niciodata ramane adesea idealul care-l ghideaza pe om. "