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Translation is at best an echo. - George Borrow Quotes

Translation is at best an echo.

Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime. - George Borrow Quotes

Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.

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Sherry . . . a sickly compound, the use of which will transform a nation, however bold and warlike by nature, into a race of sketchers, scribblers and punsters, in fact into what Englishmen are at the present day. - George Borrow Quotes

Sherry . . . a sickly compound, the use of which will transform a nation, however bold and warlike by nature, into a race of sketchers, scribblers and punsters, in fact into what Englishmen are at the present day.

If you must commit suicide... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of. - George Borrow Quotes

If you must commit suicide... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.

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 very sweet, brother; who would wish to die? - George Borrow Quotes

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 very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?

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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 the dreary vacuum of idleness - George Borrow Quotes

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 the dreary vacuum of idleness

There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands. - George Borrow Quotes

There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.

The genuine spirit of localism. - George Borrow Quotes

The genuine spirit of localism.

Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one - George Borrow Quotes

Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one

I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep. - George Borrow Quotes

I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.

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