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peasant Quotes and Quotations
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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 other peasants arrived. Walter Annenberg | top
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They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach. Luigi Barzini | top
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I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech. Ahmed Ben Bella | top
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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 for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but. John Berger | top
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They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know. Nikolai Gogol | top
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And it is practically the same in the case of the four or five million poor peasants in France, and also for Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, and two of the Scandinavian countries. Everywhere small and medium sized industry prevails. Herman Gorter | top
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As farmers or owners, the poor peasants possess a piece of land. The excellent means of transport enables them often to sell their goods. At the very worst they can mostly provide their own food. Herman Gorter | top
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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, as if we in Western Europe are also going to have that help. Herman Gorter | top
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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 would soon be on their side. Herman Gorter | top
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The poor peasant here hives under conditions quite different from those of Russia. Though often terrible, they are not as appalling as they were there. Herman Gorter | top
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I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday. Henry IV | top
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I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know? James Earl Jones | top
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Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant. Milla Jovovich | top
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With the advent of spring and beginning of the new harvest season the creators of abundance, our peasants, come out to the fields to sow with good aspirations and hopes. Islom Karimov | top
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I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters now. Pierre Laval | top
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything. Doris Lessing | top
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What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center. Al Lewis | top
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants. Mao Tse-Tung | top
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I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing. Gavrilo Princip | top
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The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it. Gertrude Stein | top
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It's going to be really interesting to see what the heroin market does in the next two years or so. One thing you can be pretty sure of. The Afghan peasants who grow poppies won't get rich. The money will end up in places like Dubai. Bruce Sterling | top
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Soldiers and peasants lived together on friendly terms; they knew each other and their everyday routines, and trusted each other; they shook their heads together over the war. Ernst Toller | top
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If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt. G. M. Trevelyan | top
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The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience. Lech Walesa | top
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic. Woodrow Wilson | top