"There was no romance about the mosquitos, however."

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Source : Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.5

Edward Burnett Tylor

#Romance Quotes

“Heroic deeds, to use whatever dower Heaven has bestowed, to test our utmost power.”
“The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.”
“It is assumed in many parts of the world that democracy is a group of people facing a certain problem, who come together to solve it in a way where everyone has an equal say.”
“Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.”
“For the primary and secondary school years, we will aid public schools serving low-income families and assist students in both public and private schools.”
“I like to follow my own muse.”
“To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.”
“A mistake is simply another way of doing things”

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