Quote by George Borrow
Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventiv

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

Other quotes by George Borrow

The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life (of which every one has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly. – George Borrow

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Smoking
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If you must commit suicide… always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of. – George Borrow

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Suicide
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Patriotism
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Patriotism

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. – William R. Inge

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Patriotism

It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because theyre not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans. – Eric Hobsbawm

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Patriotism

My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia… a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian. – Malcolm Turnbull

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Patriotism

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All things are becoming to good people. – Proverb

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The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry. – Mark Knopfler

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Skip like the wind! – Author Unknown

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Skipping

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. – Martin Luther

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inspirational