4 George Borrow Quotes on Culture

George Borrow quotes on culture

3. Sherry...a silly, 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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4. There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.

7. I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized people.

10. He is not deserving of the name of Englishman who speaketh against ale, that is, good ale.