Translation is at best an echo.
“Translation is at best an echo.”
— George Borrow · Echo
The World Motivation
Translation is at best an echo.
“Translation is at best an echo.”
— George Borrow · Echo
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“Translation is at best an echo.”
“I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.”
“Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.”
“It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.”
“There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.”
“There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?”
“Poussey is a really huge part of 'Orange,' and I'm sure her name will always echo through the halls of Litchfield, dead or alive.”
“It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.”
“The wars don't end when you sign peace treaties or when the years go by. They will echo on until I'm gone and all the widows and orphans are gone.”
“Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.”
“I will be a strong voice for Mississippi, and not an echo.”
“I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room.”