Colin Falconer (Colin Bowles) Quotes

An enemy never seems quite as formidable when he is whimpering in chains, so that you forget how he looked sneering at you when you were miserable

Colin Falconer

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• An enemy never seems quite as formidable when he is whimpering in chains, so that you forget how he looked sneering at you when you were miserable

  

  Colin Falconer
  • Never
  • Enemy
  • Chains