Frederick Marryat Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“But what was most remarkable, Broadway being three miles long, and the booths lining each side of it, in every booth there was a roast pig, large or small, as the centre attraction. Six miles of roast pig! And that in New York City alone; and roast pig in every other city, town, hamlet, and village in the Union. What association can there be between roast pig and independence?”
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“There is no composing draught like the draught through the tube of a pipe.”
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“I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich.”
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“There's no getting blood out of a turnip.”
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“Gentle reader, I was born upon the water - not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the fresh and rapid-flowing river.”
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“All lies, white or black, disgrace a gentleman, although I grant there is a difference: to say the least of it, it is a dangerous habit, for white lies are but the gentleman ushers to black ones.”
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“The English will agree with me that there are plenty of good things for the table in America; but the old proverb says: 'God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.'”
-- Frederick Marryat
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