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  • We must walk before we run.

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    George Henry Borrow (1851). “Lavengro: the scholar--the gypsy--the priest”, p.15

  • Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.

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    George Henry Borrow (1848). “Gypsies of Spain”, p.27

  • Two great talkers will not travel far together.

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    George Henry Borrow (1852). “Roving Adventures, Or Lavengro: The Scholar - the Gipsy - the Priest”, p.200

  • 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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    Silly   Race   Use  
    "Wild Wales". Book by George Henry Borrow, ch. 38, 1862.

  • 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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    George Henry Borrow (2012). “The Pocket George Borrow”, p.73, tredition

  • If you must commit suicide ... 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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    Lavengro Ch. XXIII

  • The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. 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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    George Henry Borrow (1851). “Lavengro: The Scholar--the Gypsy--the Priest”, p.136

  • I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized people - the worship of spirits is synonymous with barbarism - it is mere fetish. ... There is something philosophic in the worship of the heroes of the human race.

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    George Henry Borrow (1852). “Roving Adventures, Or Lavengro: The Scholar - the Gipsy - the Priest”, p.138

  • 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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    George Henry Borrow (1851). “Lavengro: The Scholar--the Gypsy--the Priest”, p.345

  • Translation is at best an echo.

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    George Henry Borrow (1851). “Lavengro: The Scholar--the Gypsy--the Priest”, p.151

  • A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.

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    'Lavengro' (1851) ch. 30.

  • I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.

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    George Henry Borrow (1843). “The Bible in Spain; Or the Journeys, Adventures and Imprisonnements of an Englishman, in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula”, p.344

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

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    'Lavengro' (1851) ch. 92

  • 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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    'Lavengro' (1851) ch. 25

  • 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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    George Henry Borrow (1848). “Gypsies of Spain”, p.19

  • There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.

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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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    George Henry Borrow (1858). “The Romany Rye: A Sequel to "Lavengro."”, p.296
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George Henry Borrow

  • Born: July 5, 1803
  • Died: July 26, 1881
  • Occupation: Author
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