"I was surrounded at the time by about……" — Richard Francis Burton
"I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me."
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19 Quotes by Richard Francis Burton
Richard Francis Burton has 19 quotes on this site.
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The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.
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One cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.
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Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be…
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Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the…
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Of the gladdest moments in human life...is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.
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Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.
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Do what thy manhood bids thee do.
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If you can’t laugh together in bed, the chances are you are incompatible, anyway. I’d rather hear a girl laugh…
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Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause. He noblest lives and noblest dies who…
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Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off…
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I'd like to be born the son of a duke with 90,000 pounds a year, on an enormous estate.... And…
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Home is where the books are
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There is only one purpose for all of life, and that is for you and all that lives to experience…
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A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side.
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The fates have a way of demanding of a man that he suffer his greatest moments all by himself; being…
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I am neither romantic nor a visionary, and that is my weakness and perhaps my power; at any rate it…
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That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives. All the attendant…
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