Quotes by George Henry Borrow - Page 1

We must walk before we run.
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Journey
Running
Hiking
Sauntering
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Translation is at best an echo.
George Henry Borrow / Author
Echoes
Language
Translations
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Two great talkers will not travel far together.
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Breakup
Together
Two
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A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.
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Drug
Literature
Losing
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Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.
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Dog
Fine
Youth
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Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.
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Country
God Love
Next
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I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.
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People
Sleep
Tables
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There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.
George Henry Borrow / Author
Country
Islands
World
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There is a peculiarity in the countenance, as everybody knows, which, though it cannot be described, is sure to betray the Englishman.
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Betray
Countenance
Englishmen
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Good ale, the true and proper drink of Englishmen. He is not deserving of the name of Englishman who speaketh against ale, that is good ale.
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Ale
Beer
Names
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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.
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Sight
Suicidal
Suicide
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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.
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Laziness
Parent
Vacuums
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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?
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Life
Brother
Sweet
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Never ride your horse more than five-and-thirty miles a day, always taking more care of him than of yourself; which is right and reasonable, seeing as how the horse is the best animal of the two.
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Animal
Horse
Two
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Sherry...a silly, 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.
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Race
Silly
Use
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I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized people - the worship of spirits is synonymous with barbarism - it is mere fetish. ... There is something philosophic in the worship of the heroes of the human race.
George Henry Borrow / Author
Hero
People
Race
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The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life (of which every one has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly.
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Men
People
Philosophy
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