John Hanning Speke quotes
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“Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death.”
-- John Hanning SpekeSource : John Hanning Speke (1863). “Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile”, p.19
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“The equatorial line is, in fact, the centre of atmospheric motion.”
-- John Hanning SpekeSource : John Hanning Speke (1863). “Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile”, p.17
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“The lion is, however, rarely heard - much more seldom seen.”
-- John Hanning SpekeSource : John Hanning Speke (2007). “Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile”, p.25, Wipf and Stock Publishers
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“So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig.”
-- John Hanning SpekeSource : John Hanning Speke (2007). “Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile”, p.25, Wipf and Stock Publishers
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“I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners.”
-- John Hanning SpekeSource : John Hanning Speke (2015). “Source of the Nile”, p.11, Amberley Publishing Limited
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“The expedition had now performed its functions. I saw that old father Nile without any doubt rises in the Victoria Nyanza, and as I had foretold, that lake is the great source of the holy river which cradled the first expounder of our religious belief.”
-- John Hanning SpekeSource : 1863 Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile.
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“My first occupation was to map the country.”
-- John Hanning SpekeSource : John Hanning Speke (2015). “Source of the Nile”, p.17, Amberley Publishing Limited
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“Since His delights are to be with you, let yours be found in Him.”
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“love is tied to truth. I think of them as unhappily conjoined twins.”
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“in love: a momentary instance of bein almost interested in someone else as in oneself!”
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“We learn so many things from golf: how to suffer, for instance.”
Source : Bruce Lansky (2011). “Golf, It's Just a Game: The Best Quotes & Cartoons About Golf”, p.14, Simon and Schuster
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Source : Eleanor Farjeon (1960). “A nursery in the nineties”
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“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.”
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