The love that is never to be realized will often remain a man's guiding ideal.
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Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini
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.
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Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini
An intelligent observation of the facts of human existence will reveal to shallow-minded folk who sneer at the use of coincidence in the arts of fiction and drama that life itself is little more than a series of coincidences.
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Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini