geography quotes

The art of Biography Is different from Geography. Geography is about Maps, But Biography is about Chaps.

-Bentley, Edmund Clerihew
  Biography for Beginners, introduction.

The only effort worth making is the one it takes to learn the geography of one's own nature.

-Bowles, Paul Frederick
  In the Sunday Times, 23  Jul.

If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.

-King,William Lyon Mackenzie
   Address to the House of Commons, Ottawa,18  Jun.

La Historia no se detiene nunca. D|¤a y noche su marcha es incesante. Querer detenerla ser|¤a como querer detener la Geograf|¤a. History never stops. It progresses ceaselessly day and night. Trying to stop it is like trying to stop Geography.

-Monterroso, Augusto
  Lo dema¤  s es silencio ('The Rest is Silence'),'Aforismos, dichos, etc'.

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