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“The East bow'd low before the blast,
In patient, deep disdain.
She let the legions thunder past,
And plunged in thought again.”
Matthew Arnold Quotes Source: Obermann Once More (st. 28)
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“And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people
which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their
taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the
Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land
and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the
place of the Canannites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and
the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.”
Bible Quotes Source: Exodus (ch. III, v. 8)
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“There are Batavian graces in all he says.”
Benjamin Disraeli Quotes Source: retort to Beresford Hope who had referred to him as an "Asian Mystery"
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“To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the
earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.”
Benjamin Disraeli Quotes Source: retort to Beresford Hope who had referred to him as an "Asian Mystery"
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“Oh, dense intelligence. I suspect that it was Batavian (i.e.
from the Netherlands-Batavia.)
[Lat., O crassum ingenium. Suspicor fuisse Batavum.]”
Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus Quotes Source: Naufragium
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“All the territorial possessions of all the political
establishments in the earth--including America, of course--
consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe,
howsoever insignificant, and no nation, howsoever mighty occupies
a foot of land that was not stolen.”
Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) Quotes Source: Following the Equator
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