Sir Richard Francis Burton Quotes

• One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another.

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• Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder.

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• Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest.

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• I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me.

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• Between 2 and 3 in the morning of the 19th inst. I was aroused by the cry that the enemy was upon us.

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• Wherever we halted we were surrounded by wandering troops of Bedouins.

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• The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

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Sir Richard Francis Burton (7)

Birth:	19th March, 1821
Death:	20th October, 1890
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Explorer, Soldier, Translator, Writer

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