It is never a man that I should love, but always the glories he had won
 Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World (1912). copy citation

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Author Arthur Conan Doyle
Source The Lost World
Topic glory love
Date 1912
Language English
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“"He would be a harder, sterner man, not so ready to adapt himself to a silly girl's whim. But, above all, he must be a man who could do, who could act, who could look Death in the face and have no fear of him, a man of great deeds and strange experiences. It is never a man that I should love, but always the glories he had won; for they would be reflected upon me. Think of Richard Burton! When I read his wife's life of him I could so understand her love! And Lady Stanley! Did you ever read the wonderful last chapter of that book about her husband?” source