Thomas Stephens (Jesuit)
Thomas Stephens (c.1549–1619) was a Jesuit priest missionary in Portuguese India, writer and linguist.
Read more about Thomas Stephens (Jesuit): Early Years and Studies, In Goa, Variations in The Name, Recognition
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“Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.”
—18th century English proverb, collected in Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732)
“Crouching down where nothing stirs
In the silence of the furze,
Crouching down again to brood
In the sunny solitude.”
—James Kenneth Stephens (1882–1950)