Adventure Quote by Robert Byron

“Herat, 8 December. What a day it was! God save me from any more adventures on a drained stomach.”

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But after being fired at once or twice, The ear becomes more Irish, and less nice.

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There, carried high on a bank of clouds, hovers a shape, a triangle in the sky. This is the Holy Mountain Athos, station of…

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“The murderers are supposed to have been Jewish revisionists, an extreme party that want to be rid of the English and set up a…

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Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to be people…

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I have learned that the cost of everything from a royal suite to a bottle of soda water can be halved by the simple…

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All present life is but an interjection, An'Oh!'or 'Ah!'of joy or misery, Or a 'Ha! ha!'or 'Bah!'a yawn or 'Pooh!' Of which perhaps the…

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The mountains look on Marathon And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be…

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“They say it is possible to see stars from the bottom of a well when the sun is shining.”

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All tragedies are finished bya death, All comedies are ended bya marriage; The future states of both are left to faith.

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