George Borrow - Day Quotes

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

George Borrow

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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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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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.

George Borrow

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.

George Borrow