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The world is terribly apt to take people at their own valuation.

Amelia Edwards

Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archeology is that science which enables us to register and classify our knowledge of the sum of man's achievement in those arts and handicrafts whereby he has, in time past, signalized his passage from barbarism to civilization.

Amelia Edwards

The camel has his virtues - so much at least must be admitted; but they do not lie upon the surface.

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Of all the trees that have ever been cultivated by man, the genealogical tree is the driest. It is one, we may be sure, that had no place in the garden of Eden. Its root is in the grave; its produce mere Dead Sea fruit...

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Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like ambition; it intoxicates like wine.

Amelia Edwards

It has been aptly said that all Egypt is but the facade of an immense sepulcher.

Amelia Edwards

Between prosperity and adversity there can be little real fellowship.

Amelia Edwards

Amelia Edwards

Amelia Edwards

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Born: June 7, 1831

Died: April 15, 1892 (aged 60)

Bio: Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards, also known as Amelia B. Edwards, was an English novelist, journalist, traveller and Egyptologist.

Known for:

A thousand miles up the Nile (1876)
The Phantom Coach
Monsieur Maurice (1873)
The Four-fifteen Express (1867)
A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest (1874)

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