"Cows, after leaving the low lands near the……" — John Hanning Speke
"Cows, after leaving the low lands near the coast, are found to be plentiful everywhere, and to produce milk in small quantities, from which butter is made."
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John Hanning Speke
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11 Quotes by John Hanning Speke
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Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are…
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The equatorial line is, in fact, the centre of atmospheric motion.
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The lion is, however, rarely heard - much more seldom seen.
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So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his…
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I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as…
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Each tribe has its characteristics, it is true.
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I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse,…
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In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the…
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My first occupation was to map the country.
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The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in…
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More Butter Quotes
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Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if…
— Pietro Aretino
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I make a mean peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
— Jack Black
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About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
— Manolo Blahnik
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In the 1960s, you could eat anything you wanted, and of course, people were smoking cigarettes and all kinds of…
— Julia Child
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I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs,…
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Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.
— Fiona Apple
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The coffee was boiling over a charcoal fire, and large slices of bread and butter were piled one upon the…
— Charles Dickens
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Now, because he knows that his economic theories don't work, he's been spending these last few days calling me every…
— Barack Obama
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I have a most peaceable disposition. My desires are for a modest hut, a thatched roof, but a good bed,…
— Heinrich Heine
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See with what entire freedom the whaleman takes his handful of lamps-often but old bottles and vials, though. ... He…
— Herman Melville
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In the centre of a spacious table rose a pastry as large as a church, flanked on the north by…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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