Top 10 Amelia B. Edwards Quotes

#1. The camel has his virtues - so much at least must be admitted; but they do not lie upon the surface.

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#2. Did you ever feel a creeping,
That awoke you from your sleeping,
That made your pulses flutter and bristled all your hair;
While a horrid stealthy crawling
Prevented you from calling,
And something seemed to tell you that a ghost was coming there?

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#3. Between prosperity and adversity there can be little real fellowship.

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#4. 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 ...

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#5. 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.

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#6. The world is terribly apt to take people at their own valuation.

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

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#8. Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure.

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#9. It is so easy to believe in pleasant impossibilities.

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#10. 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.

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