"The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals."

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Source : Statement on October 29, 1868. "Pages from the Goncourt Journal". Book by Edmond de Goncourt, translated by Robert Baldick, p. 141, 1962.

Edmond de Goncourt

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“History is the third parent.”

Source : Nadeem Aslam (2013). “The Blind Man's Garden”, p.7, Faber & Faber
“The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.”
“Because I'm stern and scolding [the characters] sometimes, I'm sure I'll get a ton of grief.”

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“Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.”
“My mom used to tell me stories at night, read books to me - and I read 'em over and over and over again. And you know what I learned from that? I went back and looked at everything - Why do I like reading the same stories over and over and over again? What, was I some kind of nincompoop? No - the narrative gave me connection with my mom.”
“Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.”
“At a moment when distortions of Islam are what feed most Americans, Ibrahim Abdul-Matin has done something both practical and inspiring. He persuades us that the imperiled environment is both common struggle and common ground for people who share, it turns out, more than simply God.”
“Give money to universities â€” that would be asking for trouble. All those places do is turn out more Communists.”

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