George Henry Borrow Quotes

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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…
• Two great talkers will not travel far together.
• Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.
• Translation is at best an echo.
• 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…
• A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.
• 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…
• 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…
• Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.
• If you must commit suicide ... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never…
• 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…
• We must walk before we run.
• I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.
• 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…
• There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.

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