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Isabel Burton
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“I saw the desert, it grew upon me. There are times, when I have sorrows, that I hunger and thirst for it ...”
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“... all the salt of Turkish life consists of politics and official intrigue.”
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“... where I have seen good I shall speak of it with pleasure, and where I have seen the reverse, I shall try to be silent; for a book is meant to give pleasure, and pain that is inflicted in black and white lasts for ever.”
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“People of delicate health, selfish dispositions, and coarse minds, can always bear the sufferings of others placidly.”
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“I have no leisure to think of style or of polish, or to select the best language, the best English — no time to shine as an authoress. I must just think aloud, so as not to keep the public waiting.”
Isabel Burton, English traveler, writer
(1831 - 1896)
Full name: Isabel Arundell Burton.