H. Rider Haggard Quotes

The food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that we can bear to bite it.

H. Rider Haggard

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• The food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that we can bear to bite it.

  

  H. Rider Haggard
  • Hope
  • Food
  • Bitter