What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence, returned my companion, bitterly. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done.
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Between these two there lay a broad zone comprising all the centre of the country which was a land of blood and violence, where no law prevailed save that of the sword.
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I am much mistaken, however, if he has not fine strata in his nature. He is capable of rising to heights as well as of sinking to depths.
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