"Italian husbands, in order to buy their wives a fur, spend more than all their European collegues."

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Source : "Controcorrente 1974-1986". Book by Indro Montanelli, 1987.

Indro Montanelli

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“The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.”
“I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree.”
“With a mind not diseased, a holy life is a life of hope, and at the end of it, death is a great act of hope.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 328), 1895.
“It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.”
“What a compelling motive we have for prayer, for preaching, for soul winning when we learn that every responsible human being who leaves this world without a definite change in heart immediately lifts his eyes in Hell, tormented in flame!”
“Popularity isn't the end-all, be-all. What matters far more is that you stick to your principles, that you stand up and you live a life of integrity.”
“Watch out, I have a large, very large fur, with which I could cover you up entirely, and I have a mind to catch you in it as in a net.”
“Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time.”

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