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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Isabel Burton, later known as Lady Burton, was an English writer, explorer and adventurer. She was the wife and partner of explorer, adventurer, and writer Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890).
all the salt of Turkish life consists of politics and official intrigue.
I saw the desert, it grew upon me. There are times, when I have sorrows, that I hunger and thirst for it.
I must just think aloud, so as not to keep the public waiting.
He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool -- shun him.
He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple -- teach him.
Without any cant, does not Providence provide wonderfully for us?
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.
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.
People of delicate health, selfish dispositions, and coarse minds, can always bear the sufferings of others placidly.