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Alexander William Kinglake Quotes

1809–1891 England

Alexander William Kinglake (5 August 1809 – 2 January 1891) was an English orientalist travel writer and historian.

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Also known as: Eothen

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The spruce beauty of the slender red line.

Sticks and stones may break my bones But words will never hurt me.

Soon the men of the column began to see that though the scarlet line was slender, it was very rigid and exact.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alexander William Kinglake (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.