"Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same."

Nation, Country, Politeness

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"Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same."

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"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms."

George Eliot, British Author

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"The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

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"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings."

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"A whole nation cannot rise above itself."

Alexis de Tocqueville, French Scientist

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"If Iran becomes a nuclear weapon state it is the end of non-proliferation as we know it. If Iran gets a nuclear weapon you are likely to see Saudi, Egypt and other countries follow suit and we will bequeath to the next generation a nuclear arms race in the world's most unstable region."

Liam Fox, British Politician

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"A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"Tenderness is a virtue."

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"I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population."

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"Where wealth accumulates, men decay."

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"People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy."

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"Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better."

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"Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall."

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"Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long."

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"When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?"

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"As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease."

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