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Letter "G" » George Borrow Quotes
«Translation is at best an echo.»
«Sherry . . . a sickly compound, the use of which will transform a nation, however bold and warlike by nature, into a race of sketchers, scribblers and punsters, in fact into what Englishmen are at the present day.»
Author: George Borrow
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compound, Englishmen, present day, punster, punsters, scribbler, scribblers, sherry, sickly, transform, warlike
«If you must commit suicide... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.»
«There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?»
Author: George Borrow
«It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness»
«There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.»
«The genuine spirit of localism.»
Author: George Borrow
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localism
«Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one»
«Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.»
«I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.»
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