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Image of the quote is loading... SaveSave How can I wear the harness of toilAnd sweat at the daily round,While in my soul foreverThe drums of Pictdom sound? - Quote by Robert E. Howard

How can I wear the harness of toilAnd sweat at the daily round,While in my soul foreverThe drums of Pictdom sound?

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The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!
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All fled—all done, so lift me on the pyre—The Feast is over, and the lamps expire.
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Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet.
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