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George Borrow
: 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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Fortune befriends the bold.
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Boldness is business is the first, second, and third thing.
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
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The measure may be thought bold, but I am of the opinion the boldest are the safest.
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Francis Bacon :
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Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
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Sir Walter Scott :
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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Samuel Butler :
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Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to.
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Germaine Greer :
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In a sane society no woman would be left to struggle on her own with the huge transformation that is motherhood, when a single individual finds herself joined by an invisible umbilical cord to another person from whom she will never be separated, even by death.
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Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
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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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A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.
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Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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