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

    Egypt   Said   Facade  
    Amelia B. Edwards (2011). “Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers”, p.5, Cambridge University Press
  • Every reformation ruins somebody.

    Amelia B. Edwards (1865). “Half a Million of Money”, p.241
  • It is so easy to believe in pleasant impossibilities.

    Believe   Easy   Pleasant  
  • The world is terribly apt to take people at their own valuation.

  • 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.

    Men   Garden   Roots  
  • between prosperity and adversity there can be little real fellowship.

  • 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.

    Art   Knowledge   Science  
  • 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.

  • Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure.

    Amelia B. Edwards (2011). “Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers”, p.193, Cambridge University Press
  • The camel has his virtues - so much at least must be admitted; but they do not lie upon the surface.

    Lying   Camels   Virtue  
    Amelia B. Edwards (2008). “A Thousand Miles Up the Nile: Fully Illustrated Second Edition”, p.186, Norton Creek Press
  • It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever new. The nearer we approach them, the more remote they seem: the more we study them, the more we have yet to learn. Time augments rather than diminishes their everlasting novelty; and to our descendants of a thousand years hence it may safely be predicted that they will be even more fascinating than to ourselves. This is true of many ancient lands, but of no place is it. so true as of Egypt.

    Book   Science   Egypt  
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