Isabella Bird quotes
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“Everybody seized upon a bit of the beast. The Sultan claimed the liver, which, when dried and powdered, is worth twice its weight in gold as medicine.”
-- Isabella BirdSource : Isabella Bird (2010). “The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither”, p.228, Cambridge University Press
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“I have just dropped into the very place I have been seeking, but in everything it exceeds all my dreams.”
-- Isabella BirdSource : Isabella L. Bird (2012). “A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains”, p.53, Courier Corporation
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“Japan offers as much novelty perhaps as an excursion to another planet.”
-- Isabella BirdSource : Isabella Lucy Bird (2010). “Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: Volume 1: An Account of Travels in the Interior, Including Visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrines of Nikkô and Isé”, p.45, Cambridge University Press
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“Surely one advantage of traveling is that, while it removes much prejudice against foreigners and their customs, it intensifies tenfold one's appreciation of the good at home.”
-- Isabella BirdSource : Isabella L. Bird (2012). “A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains”, p.159, Courier Corporation
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“I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh.”
-- Isabella BirdSource : Isabella L. Bird (2012). “A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains”, p.7, Courier Corporation
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“Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips.”
-- Isabella BirdSource : Isabella L. Bird (2012). “A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains”, p.128, Courier Corporation
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“The 'almighty dollar' is the true divinity, and its worship is universal.”
-- Isabella BirdSource : Isabella L. Bird (2012). “A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains”, p.127, Courier Corporation
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“[On Malaysia:] Mr. Darwin says so truly that a visit to the tropics (and such tropics) is like a visit to a new planet. This new wonder-world, so enchanting, tantalising, intoxicating, makes me despair, for I cannot make you see what I am seeing!”
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Source : Interview with John McMurtrie, www.sfgate.com. March 14, 2010.
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Source : 1973 Habeas Corpus.
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“Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.”
Source : "Boundaries and Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.
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Source : Adam Rapp (2006). “The Year of Endless Sorrows: A Novel”, p.390, Macmillan
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“I hear you're losing weight again, Mary Jane. Do you ever wonder who you're losing it for?”
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“The heart bowed down by weight of woe To weakest hope will cling.”
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