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Book Quotes Roundup – 27 March, 2022

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“You will win this battle or perish. That is what I, a woman, plan to do. Let the men live in slavery if they will.” – Boudica, first heroine in British history
― Elizabeth Kerri Mahon, Scandalous Women: The Lives and Loves of History’s Most Notorious Women


“Sometimes, all you had to do was exist in order to be someone’s saviour.”
– Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Subject X



“Not to pun at all would be more challenging than most people might imagine.”
― John Pollack, The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics



“Khrushchev struck Minnesota Senator Hubert H.] Humphrey as a man infected with personal and national insecurity”
― Frederick Kempe, Berlin 1961


“It is one of history’s ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions”
– Henry Kissinger, On China


“The best way to defend is to attack and the best way to attack is to attack.” —GEORGE PATTON
― Jeff Shaara, No Less Than Victory

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Book Quotes Roundup – 27 March, 2022
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Favorite book quotes from this week, including Elizabeth Kerri Mahon, Keigo Higashino, John Pollack, Frederick Kempe, Henry Kissinger, and Jeff Shaara
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