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There was movement along the fringe of Chauncey's vision, and he snapped his head to the left. At first glance what appeared to be a… — Becca Fitzpatrick
You don’t know what you’re talking about.” – Coyote “Arrogance. The number one cause of death among both peasant and king. Beware its sharp blade.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know… — Terry Pratchett
I had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a nineteenth-century Russian peasant fortifying myself for a day… — John Green
We think. We are not peasants. We are mechanics. But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war. Everybody hates war. There… — Ernest Hemingway
Royce Westmoreland stared at him with biting scorn. "I despise hypocrisy, particularly when it is coated with holiness." "May I ask for a specific example?"… — Judith McNaught
I can laugh at peasants and townies chained all their lives to a tiny corner of the earth while I roam its face and see… — Glen Cook
Happy is it, indeed, for me that my heart is capable of feeling the same simple and innocent pleasure as the peasant whose table is… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The gods don’t care about men, no more than kings care about peasants. — George R. R. Martin
A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting. — Walter Mosley
I have had affairs that lasted decades and others that lasted for hours. I have loved princesses and peasants. And I suppose they loved me,… — Erin Morgenstern
They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why… — Ernest Hemingway
For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation. — Vladimir Lenin
Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is a 300-pound blocking… — Julia Child
Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son… — Nelson Mandela
The serious problem is the education of the peasantry. The peasant economy is scattered, and the socialization of agriculture, judging by the Soviet Union's experience,… — Mao Zedong
We must have faith, first, that the peasant masses are ready to advance step by step along the road of socialism under the leadership of… — Mao Zedong
There is a serious tendency towards capitalism among the well-to-do peasants. This tendency will become rampant if we in the slightest way neglect political work… — Mao Zedong
The People's democratic dictatorship is based on the alliance of the working class, the peasantry and the urban petty bourgeoisie, and mainly on the alliance… — Mao Zedong
I grew up in a family of peasants, and it was there that I saw the way that, for example, our wheat fields suffered as… — Mikhail Gorbachev
I am officially a doctor, and believe it or not, I can save lives and tune certain instruments and can beat peasants with a stick. — Sanjeev Bhaskar
I eat leftover caviar by hand, with baked potato, like peasants. — Ion Tiriac
Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the… — Walter Annenberg
For the Russian masses, the proletarians, knew for certain, and already saw during the war, and in part before their very eyes, that the peasants… — Herman Gorter
Because in Russia you were able to triumph with the help of a large class of poor peasants, you represent things in such a way,… — Herman Gorter

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