Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham Quotes

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God forbid that I should go to any heaven in which there are no horses.

Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham

Poverty, many can endure with dignity. Success, how few can carry off, even with decency and without baring their innermost infirmities before the public gaze!

Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham

How few successful men are interesting! Hannibal, Alcibiades, with Raleigh, Mithridates, and Napoleon, who would compare them for a moment with their mere conquerors?

Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham

Success, which touches nothing that it does not vulgarize, should be its own reward.

Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham

Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham

Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham

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Born: May 24, 1852

Died: March 20, 1936 (aged 83)

Bio: Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham was a Scottish politician, writer, journalist and adventurer.

Known for:

Mogreb-el-Acksa (1898)
Tales of horsemen
Horses of the conquest (1930)
Cartagena and the banks of the Sinú (1920)

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