"I want every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays."

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Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 210-15, 1922.

Henry IV of France

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“By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure.”
“Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels.”

Source : Walter De la Mare (1997). “The Return”, p.115, Courier Corporation
“What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.”

Source : Meister Eckhart, Raymond Bernard Blakney (1941). “Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart”
“As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it would actually benefit both them and society if - to quote Professor Higgins - a woman could be more like a man.”

Source : "Do women really need life tips from gay men?". www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2008.
“Where in this small-talking world can I find A longitude with no platitude?”
“Nobody's really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character's totally unsympathetic, they're not real and I'm not interested. Even the real monsters have to have a spark of something you can relate to.”

Source : "Matthew Macfadyen: 'I do have a good eye'" by Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2010.
“Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.”
“I think blogging and the ability to instantaneously respond to news items has changed the way we approach all media. We're seeing people talking back to columnists, and going much further in the sexual realm than most papers, even alternative weeklies, will publish. I'm surprised more papers aren't having people do what you're doing with an online only column, and to be honest, I read almost all the media I do read online, and plenty of other people do, too, so I don't know what's stopping them.”

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