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They wanted to carry her, but she jumped to the stones of the plaza and strode away from the building, toward her ranks, which parted… — Neal Stephenson
Nobles and peasants marry early. Businessmen tend to wait. — David Eddings
Exploration was for those with a measure of peasant blood, those with big thighs and thick ankles who could take punishment as they took bread… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
On our earth, before writing was invented, before the printing press was invented, poetry flourished. That is why we know that poetry is like bread;… — Pablo Neruda
Sir Beldevere: What makes you think she's a witch? Peasant 3: Well, she turned me into a newt! Sir Beldevere: A newt? Peasant 3: [meekly… — Graham Chapman
A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him," my father had told me more than once. "A businessman has… — Walter Mosley
Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By mourning tongues The… — Wystan Hugh Auden
The goofiness of radicals thinking they have to dress in Guatemalan peasant clothes. The poor don't want you to look like them. They want you… — Tracy Kidder
Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take literally the tenth-hand… — Christopher Hitchens
Like any normal fifth grader, I preferred my villains to be evil and stay that way, to act like Dracula rather than Frankenstein's monster, who… — David Sedaris
If all else fails, we will simply have to drug our attendants, overpower the guards, raise the oppressed peasants to arms, and take over the… — Barbara Mertz
Who’s that? That’s the King. Who’s he? The Duke. Who’s she? The Princess. What do they call you? The Count. What does that make me?… — Jordan Sonnenblick
Many...have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a… — Thomas Hardy
Give me a few minutes.” “You have time.” He sat in the grass. “Are you just going to sit there and watch me?” “Yes. Watching… — Ilona Andrews
Turkey's true master is the peasant. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
The emperor is naked!" The parade stopped. The emperor paused. A hush fell over the crowd, until one quick-thinking peasant shouted: "No, he isn't. The… — James Finn Garner
The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with those three you can learn anything you want to learn.… — Robert A. Heinlein
Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night? — Graham Greene
Like at the DMV when you've passed your driver's test and had a really bad picture taken and you're waiting for them to bring you… — P. C. Cast
Nellie's brow furrowed. "The great Mr. Hip-Hop Mogul standing in line with the common peasants? How do you figure that?" Dan grinned. "I'm starting to… — Gordon Korman
I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant. — C S Forester
Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants. The… — Cassandra Clare
Indians are the Italians of Asia and vice versa. Every man in both countries is a singer when he is happy, and every woman is… — Gregory David Roberts
Were I to go down into the market-place, armed with the powers of witchcraft, and take a peasant by the shoulders and whisper to him,… — Rebecca West
It will be hard James but you come from sturdy peasant stock men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads and in the… — James A. Baldwin

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