It's very kind of you to take us in, " said the vicar, smiling. "We're so sorry if we've put you out at all." "Not at all! " I said, lying through my teeth.
Such were our minor preparations for the journey, but above all we laid in an ample stock of good-humour, and a genuine disposition to be pleased; determining to travel in true contrabandista style; taking things as we found them, rough or smooth, and mingling with...
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Washington Irving
Motto for latin countries: If you're not late, you're not on time
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Bogdan Vaida
To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby seals in Canada while continuing to eat eggs from hens who have spent their lives crammed into cages, or veal from calves who have been deprived of...
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Peter Singer
Are you a communist?"" No I am an anti-fascist"" For a long time?"" Since I have understood fascism.
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Ernest Hemingway
War cannot eliminate differing ideas and viewpoints, and partisans of the defeated side do not disappear. Though subjugated, they become a sizable political constituency in the postwar period. A dictator may be able to repress them, and in democracies a numerical majority may outvote them,...
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Paul D. Escott
More Quotes By Victoria Twead
Romance blossomed over a carrier bag full of mackerel. It wasn't exactly how I imagined it would happen; there were no sunsets, or butterflies, or birdsong, just some smelly dead fish and a slimy carrier bag.
It's very kind of you to take us in, " said the vicar, smiling. "We're so sorry if we've put you out at all." "Not at all! " I said, lying through my teeth.
The vicar's handshake was warm and reassuring, but shaking hands with Mavis was like clutching a bunch of dead twigs.
We had never eaten our own chickens but we delighted in eating their eggs. No matter how hot the summer became, they always presented us with eggs, which I thought was very generous of them, considering the heat. I'm sure I wouldn't have bothered.
