H. Rider Haggard Quotes

Women love the last blow as well as the last word, and when they fight for love they are pitiless as a wounded buffalo.

H. Rider Haggard

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• Women love the last blow as well as the last word, and when they fight for love they are pitiless as a wounded buffalo.

  

  H. Rider Haggard
  • Women
  • Fighting
  • Blow