Quotes from Winston Graham, Jeremy Poldark

It isn't where you're born in this world, it's what you do.

Do you believe we are masters of ourselves, or merely dance like puppets on strings having the illusion of independence?

But was any future, anyone's future, unfraught by hazards of some sort? The only security was death. So long as one wanted to go on living on had to accept the risks. Well, she accepted them...