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Title: Quotes and Images From The Novels of Georg Ebers

Author: Georg Ebers
Edited and Arranged by David Widger

Release Date: August 29, 2004 [EBook #7542]
[Last updated on February 16, 2007]

Language: English

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Produced by David Widger

QUOTES AND IMAGES FROM GEORG EBERS

THE WORKS OF EBERS

By Georg Ebers

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

The Novels Of Georg Ebers

Portrait Of Georg Ebers

Uarda

Cleopatra

Margery

Homo Sum--The Recluse

In The Fire Of The Forge

Bookcover

QUOTATIONS:

A noble mind can never swim with the
stream

A first impression is often a final one

A small joy makes us to forget our
heavy griefs

A live dog is better than a dead king

A well-to-do man always gets a higher
price than a poor one

A subdued tone generally provokes an
equally subdued answer

A dirty road serves when it makes for
the goal

A knot can often be untied by daylight

A school where people learned modesty

A word at the right time and place

A mere nothing in one man's life, to
another may be great

A debtor, says the proverb, is half a
prisoner

A kind word hath far more power than an
angry one

A blustering word often does good
service

Abandon to the young the things we
ourselves used most to enjoy

Abandoned women (required by law to
help put out the fires)

Absence of suffering is not happiness

Abuse not those who have outwitted thee

Action trod on the heels of resolve

Age is inquisitive

Age when usually even bad liquor tastes
of honey

Aimless life of pleasure

Air of a professional guide

All I did was right in her eyes

All things were alike to me

Always more good things in a poor
family which was once rich

Among fools one must be a fool

An admirer of the lovely color of his
blue bruises

Ancient custom, to have her ears cut
off

And what is great--and what is small

Apis the progeny of a virgin cow and a
moonbeam

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