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“The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn, for, in everything but wits and knowledge, the Arab is generally the better man of the two.”

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It is difficult to keep quiet when everything is being done wrong, but the less you lose your temper the greater your advantage. Also…

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Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the…

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Your success will be proportioned to the amount of mental effort you devote to it.

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Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers.

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He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of…

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Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private…

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We lived many lives in those whirling campaigns, never sparing ourselves; yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came…

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Bedouin ways were hard even for those brought up to them, and for strangers, terrible: a death in life.

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