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

 

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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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?

George Borrow

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

George Borrow

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

George Borrow

The genuine spirit of localism.

George Borrow

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.

George Borrow