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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.
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Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.
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Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.
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A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.
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There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
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I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.
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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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Never ride your horse more than five-and-thirty miles a day, always taking more care of him than of yourself; which is right and reasonable, seeing as how the horse is the best animal of the two.
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Good ale, the true and proper drink of Englishmen. He is not deserving of the name of Englishman who speaketh against ale, that is good ale.
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Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life (of which every one has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly.
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He is not deserving of the name of Englishman who speaketh against ale, that is, good ale.
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The English have forgot that they ever conquered the Welsh, but some ages will elapse before the Welsh forget that the English have conquered them.
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Youth is the only season for enjoyment, and the first twenty-five years of one's life are worth all the rest of the longest life of man, even though those five-and-twenty be spent in penury and contempt, and the rest in the possession of wealth, honors, respectability.
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I learned... to fear God, and to take my own part.
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There is a peculiarity in the countenance, as everybody knows, which, though it cannot be described, is sure to betray the Englishman.
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If you must commit suicide – and there is no knowing to what people may be brought – always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.
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The author of Amelia, the most singular genius which their island ever produced, whose works it has long been the fashion to abuse in public and to read in secret.
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There's the wind on the heath, brother; if I could only feel that, I would gladly live for ever.
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I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized people.
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Sherry... a silly, 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.
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
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Born:
July 5, 1803
Died:
July 26, 1881
(aged 78)
Bio:
George Henry Borrow was an English author who wrote novels and travelogues based on his experiences traveling around Europe.
Known for:
Lavengro (1851)
The Bible in Spain (1846)
The Romany Rye (1857)
Wild Wales (1862)
The Zincali (1843)
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