Jim's Favorite Famous Quote, Quip, Axiom, and Maxim Repository
Richard Burton
Sir Richard Francis Burton.
| Born | March 19, 1821 Torquay, England |
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| Died | October 20, 1890 Trieste, Austria-Hungary (now Italy) |
British explorer and writer. Translated Arabian Nights into English. First European to see Lake Tanganyika.
The repository contains two quotes from Sir Richard Francis Burton.
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
All so-called revealed religions consist mainly of three portions, a cosmogony more or less mythical, a history more or less falsified, and a moral code more or less pure.
