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No ruler is ever really dethroned by his subjects. No hand but his own ever takes the crown from his head... When he ceases to lead... the revolt whi… - Elizabeth Bisland
" "No ruler is ever really dethroned by his subjects. No hand but his own ever takes the crown from his head... When he ceases to lead... the revolt which casts him from power is only the outward manifestation of his previous abdication.
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About Elizabeth Bisland
Elizabeth Bisland Whetmore (February 11, 1861 – January 6, 1929) was an American writer and traveler, best known for her around-the-world race against Nellie Bly in 1889-1890. Bisland Whetmore was a poet, columnist, biographer, essayist and novelist. Throughout her lifetime, she published all of her works as Elizabeth Bisland.
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[Perhaps] the potency of fever, of drugs, of alcohol, or of mania may open up deeps of memory, of primordial memory, that are closed to the milder magic of sleep. The subtle poison in the grape may gnaw through the walls of Time and give the memory sight of those terrible days when we wallowed — nameless shapes — in the primaeval slime.
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Even in my childhood my sympathy for the heroes in the fairy tales was always keenest at the moment when they waved their hands in farewell and turned their faces at last towards the magical adventures that stalked about impatiently awaiting their advent in the strange countries where their havens lay.
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