"Rumours began with the whispered gossip of native servants and spread quickly to the rest of the population."

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Source : Paul Scott (1998). “The Raj Quartet, Volume 1: The Jewel in the Crown”, p.299, University of Chicago Press

Paul Scott

#Gossip Quotes #Population Quotes #Servant Quotes

“No theory of reality compatible with quantum theory can require spatially separate events to be independent.”
“I do think that the fear mentality - of scarcity - comes from within.”
“Before you can pick a social-media strategy, you have to think of your customer and what the value proposition is for them. Social media is a way to engage customers, not to give your business a 'shout out.'”
“...I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it again.”
“Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.”
“The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.”
“If you have to be burned at the stake, be a good fellow and collect your own fire-wood.”

Source : George Ade (1920). “Hand-made Fables”
“Have good trust in yourself, not in the One that you think you should be, but in the One that you are.”

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