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Quotation from The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson
“There cometh never any rising, Bennet, from below--so all judicious chroniclers concord in their opinion; but rebellion travelleth ever downward from above”
The Black Arrow, Prologue (Project Gutenberg #848)
The priest insists that the outlaws must be the tool of some great lord, while Hatch answers that the men whose goods they have taken need no lord to spur them.
Citation: "There cometh never any rising, Bennet, from below--so all judicious chroniclers concord in their opinion; but rebellion travelleth ever downward from above" — Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow, Prologue (Project Gutenberg #848). (id the-black-arrow-q2)
Portrait: Blackarrowcover, Cassel 1888., Public domain.
