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"What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds."
"America is the most fertile ground of opportunity."
"This country and the Commonwealth last Tuesday were not far from the Kingdom of Heaven."
"In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment."
"To be able to detect the outbreak of avian flu anywhere in the world is going to require a partnership of several countries that will share information and samples, but it is important to remember a threat anywhere is a threat everywhere."
"We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition."
"If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera."
"A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay."
Explore more quotes by Francois Fenelon
"There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true."
"Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half."
"Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves."
"All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation."
"Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies."
"Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure."
"A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect."
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