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«For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.»
Author: Aleksander Solzhenitsyn | About: Country, Writers | Keywords: minor, regime
«European imperialism long ago made Tahiti a distant suburb of Paris, the missionaries made it a suburb of Christ's kingdom, and the radio made it a suburb of Los Angeles»
«France is getting younger. I am not.»
Author: Richard Cobb | About: Country
«Holland is a country, where the earth is better than the air, and profit more in request than honor; where there is more sense than wit; more good nature than good humor; and more wealth than pleasure; where a man would choose rather to travel than t»
Author: William Temple, Sr. | About: Country | Keywords: Holland
«How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?»
Author: Charles de Gaulle | About: Country | Keywords: cheese, govern
«God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.»
«England is not the best possible world but it is the best actual country, and a great rest after America»
Author: George Santayana (Humanist, Philosopher, Poet) | About: Country | Keywords: actual, England
«Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths»
«For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.»
«For mine own part, it was Greek to me»

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