Famous quotes containing the words mercenary, history and/or africa:
“These, in the day when heaven was falling,
The hour when earth’s foundations fled,
Followed their mercenary calling
And took their wages and are dead.”
—A.E. (Alfred Edward)
“In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)
“America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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