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- A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult… — John Berger
- I like army boots, I like peasant skirts - sometimes together! So I do know that I have odd taste. — Mayim Bialik
- My wife was the first art collector in the family, and I didn't become interested until around 1973. The first important artwork… — Eli Broad
- There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Those who came to the United States didn't realize they were white until they got here. They were told they were white.… — Cornel West
- That all who are happy are equally happy is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not… — Samuel Johnson
- Life in the country teaches one that the really stimulating things are the quiet, natural things, and the really wearisome things are… — Beverley Nichols
- In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but… — Mary McCarthy
- After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only… — Horace Mann
- This root [the potato], no matter how much you prepare it, is tasteless and floury. It cannot pass for an agreeable food,… — Denis Diderot
- Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- I've no desire to hang around with a bunch of upper-class delinquents, do twenty minutes' work and then spend the rest of… — Rowan Atkinson