4 Quotes by Richard Blackmore

  • Author Richard Blackmore
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    Betting is the manure to which the enormous crop of horse-races and racehorse breeding in this and other countries is to a large extent due.

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    You own a watch the invention of the mind, though for a single motion 'tis designed, as well as that which is with greater thought with various springs, for various motions wrought.

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    The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening.

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