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Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth — uncivilised, if you will — element which individualises nations.

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Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit. Not in such poverty as this, however, which but stunts the growth, and blunts senses and morals alike.

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Organised brigandage has ceased to exist, but murder and highway robbery are still far too common in the less frequented districts. Travellers rarely suffer to-day, however. It is the wealthy inhabitants who run risks at the hand of the mafia, or lawless Sicilian.

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Many people with a wild desire to act prove failures on the stage, their inclinations are greater than their powers. Rarely is it the other way...

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Never has the theatrical profession been more overcrowded than at the present moment.

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No Southern people ever seem to possess the energy of their Northern brothers, and in Sicily a dolce far niente life is much enjoyed. Time is no object. According to Pliny, Aristhomacus watched the life of the bee carefully for fifty-eight years, which is just the sort of work a Sicilian of to-day would like.

Ethel Brilliana Tweedie

Ethel Brilliana Tweedie

Ethel Brilliana Tweedie

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Born: January 1, 1862

Died: April 15, 1940 (aged 78)

Bio: Ethel Brilliana Tweedie F.R.G.S. was a prolific English author, travel writer, biographer, historian, editor, journalist, photographer and illustrator. She wrote as Mrs. Alec Tweedie, Mrs. Alec-Tweedie and as Ethel B. Harley.

Known for:

A Girl's Ride in Iceland (1889)
America as I saw it; or, American revisited

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