Top 10 George Borrow Quotes

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

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#2. Translation is at best an echo.

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

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

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

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#7. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?

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#8. Two great talkers will not travel far together.

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

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#10. There's the wind on the heath, brother; if I could only feel that, I would gladly live for ever.

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