"The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters."

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Source : "Death of Baron De Kalb" by Benjamin Franklin Ells, 1849.

Robert Morley

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“Blood mixture and the result drop in the racial level is the sole cause of the dying out of old cultures; for men do not perish as a result of lost wars, but by the loss of that force of resistance which is continued only in pure blood. All who are not of good race in this world are chaff.”
“No pen, no words, no image can express to you the loveliness of my only, only Lord Jesus.”

Source : Samuel Rutherford (1867). “Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford”, p.344
“Candidates who win while spending less than their opponents still usually have to spend quite a lot. While not a surefire guarantor of victory, a large war chest -even if not the largest-is usually a necessary condition. Money may not guarantee victory, but the lack of it usually guarantees defeat. Without large sums, there is rarely much of a campaign, as poorly funded 'minor' candidates have repeatedly discovered.”
“My feeling is that poetry is also a healing process, and then when a person tries to write poetry with depth or beauty, he will find himself guided along paths which will heal him, and this is more important, actually, than any of the poetry he writes.”
“I know all too well that people only see what they want to see and remember only what they want to remember.”
“The silver friend knows your present and the gold friend knows all of your past dirt and glories. Once in a blue moon there is someone who knows it all, someone who knows and accepts you unconditionally, someone who is there for life.”
“I warn black Americans'don't get too mixed. A little is fine, but not to the point where you're out of the family.”
“This was not the old Chichikov. This was some wreckage of the old Chichikov. The inner state of his soul might be compared to a demolished building, which has been demolished so that from it a new one could be built; but the new one has not been started yet, because the infinitive plan has not yet come from the architect and the workers are left in perplexity.”

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