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George Borrow

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


— George Borrow


#romany #nature

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


— George Borrow


#day #dog #every #fine #his

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


— George Borrow


#i #literature #losing #sir #trade

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


— George Borrow


#beneath #i #i am #invariably #people

Two great talkers will not travel far together.


— George Borrow


#great #talkers #together #travel #two

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


— George Borrow


#best #country #crime #god #love

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


— George Borrow


#countries #islands #known #less #than

Translation is at best an echo.


— George Borrow


#echo #translation

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.


— George Borrow


#been #dreary #escape #idleness #itself






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But the eagerly awaited Lavengro (1851) and The Romany Rye (1857) puzzled many readers who were not sure how much was fact and how much fiction (a question debated to this day). Borrow depicts Taylor an advocate of German Romantic literature in his semi-autobiographical novel Lavengro (1851). During his two-year sojourn in Russia Borrow called upon writer Alexander Pushkin.

Over the course of his wanderings he developed a close affinity with the Romani people of Europe who figure prominently in his work. George Henry Borrow (5 July 1803 – 26 July 1881) was an English author who wrote novels and travelogues based on his own experiences traveling around Europe.

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