Words Worth Noting - May 19, 2021

“How thinkest thou that I rule this people? I have but a regiment of guards to do my bidding, therefore it is not by force. It is by terror. My empire is of the imagination. Once in a generation mayhap I do as I have done but now, and slay a score by torture.”

“She” (to the narrator) in H. Rider Haggard She