More from Sir Richard Francis Burton

  1. Of the gladest moments in human life, methinks is the departure upon a distant journey to unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort…
  2. The recruit must be carefully and sedulously taught when meeting the enemy, even at a trot or canter, to use no force whatever, otherwise h…
  3. Presently our fire being exhausted, and the enemy pressing on with spear and javelin, the position became untenable; the tent was nearly ba…
  4. Starting in a hollowed log of wood - some thousand miles up a river, with an infinitesimal prospect of returning! I ask myself 'Why?' and t…
  5. Travellers like poets are mostly an angry race.
  6. The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty but to have a slave of his own.
  7. Is not man born with a love of change - an Englishman to be discontented - an Anglo-Indian to grumble?
  8. The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

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