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«For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.»
«European imperialism long ago made Tahiti a distant suburb of Paris, the missionaries made it a suburb of Christ's kingdom, and the radio made it a suburb of Los Angeles»
Author: Cedric Belfrage
| About:
Country
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Angeles, European, imperialism, long ago, missionaries, Paris, radio, suburb, Tahiti
«France is getting younger. I am not.»
Author: Richard Cobb
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Country
«Holland is a country, where the earth is better than the air, and profit more in request than honor; where there is more sense than wit; more good nature than good humor; and more wealth than pleasure; where a man would choose rather to travel than t»
«How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?»
«God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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Change,
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Vanity
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conceited, old country, puerile, senility, sophisticated
«England is not the best possible world but it is the best actual country, and a great rest after America»
«Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
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People
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branches, even as, faiths, tree trunk, trunk, trunks
«For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.»
Author: Maya Angelou
(Poet)
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Africa, arrived, glamorous, historical, No Place to Go
«For mine own part, it was Greek to me»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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Country,
Opinions
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Greek
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