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More from Sir Richard Francis Burton

  1. The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty but to have a slave of his own.

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  2. The Translator has ventured to entitle a 'Lay of the Higher Law' the following composition, which aims at being in advance of its time; and he has not feared t…

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  3. Starting in a hollowed log of wood - some thousand miles up a river, with an infinitesimal prospect of returning! I ask myself 'Why?' and the only echo is 'dam…

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