"I mean, my people were very, very simple.……" — James Earl Jones

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• A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is… — 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… — Eli Broad
• Those who came to the United States didn't realize they were white until they got here. They were told they… — Cornel West
• That all who are happy are equally happy is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied,… — Samuel Johnson
• Life in the country teaches one that the really stimulating things are the quiet, natural things, and the really wearisome… — Beverley Nichols
• After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of… — Horace Mann
• Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, or… — 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… — Rowan Atkinson
• You peasant swain! You whoreson malt-horse drudge! — William Shakespeare
• The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the simple boiler in which the peasant prepares his food. The huge ship… — John Timbs
• Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity. The ignorant peasant without fault is greater than the philosopher with many.… — Oliver Goldsmith

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