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History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.

Wilbur Smith

They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it.

Wilbur Smith

It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one to its full.

Wilbur Smith

Sometimes it is best for men not to attempt to interfere with destiny. Our prayers can be answered in ways which we do not expect and do not welcome.

Wilbur Smith

A man follows the path laid out for him. He does his duty to God and his King. He does what he must do, not what pleases him. God's truth, boy, what kind of world would this be if every man did what pleased him alone? Who would plough the fields and reap the harvest, if every man had the right to say, 'I don't want to do that.' In this world there is a place for every man, but every man must know his place.

Wilbur Smith

A cynic had defined aid as simply the system by which poor white people in rich countries gave money to rich black people in poor countries to put into Swiss bank accounts.

Wilbur Smith

Let it simply be said that we know more about the details of the hours immediately before and the actual death of Jesus, in and near Jerusalem, than we know about the death of any other one man in all the ancient world.

Wilbur Smith

Wilbur Smith

Wilbur Smith

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Born: January 9, 1933

Died: November 13, 2021 (aged 88)

Bio: Wilbur Addison Smith was a South African novelist specializing in historical fiction about the international involvement in Southern Africa across three centuries, seen from the viewpoints of both black and white families.

Known for:

River God (1994)
Those in Peril (2011)
The Seventh Scroll (1995)
Birds of Prey (1997)
Assegai (2009)

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