The author of Amelia' Fielding, 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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I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.George Borrow
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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Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.
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The genuine spirit of localism.
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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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Sherry . . . a 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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