60 Quotes About Foreigners
- Author Lailah Gifty Akita
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Foreigners in every nation are the friends of the earth.
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- Author Steven Magee
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America is the land of the mutts.
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- Author Angela Kiss
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English people don’t like to be told ‘enjoy your meal’. They will enjoy their meal if they feel like enjoying it. It is advisable not to command them such things in case they have other plans with their meal, such as preferring to dislike it.
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- Author Voltaire
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Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.
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- Author Lailah Gifty Akita
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Do not oppress the foreigners living in your land. Always, remember that you will be a foreigner when you travel to another land.
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- Author Angela Kiss
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Never, and by this I mean never, criticise the English weather. Especially if you’re an alien. For an English woman, it’s as though you are scolding her first born child. For an Englishman, it’s as if you are criticising the size of his penis. Or even worse: his football team.
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- Author Robert Louis Stevenson
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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- Author David Eddings
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These outlanders are peculiar, aren’t they?"Longbow smiled faintly. "They seem to think that we’re the peculiar ones. Their lives are very complicated, but we try our best to keep everything simple. I’m not sure exactly why, but that seems to offend them for some reason.
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- Author Truman Capote
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Perhaps, like most of us in a foreign country, he was incapable of placing people, selecting a frame for their picture, as he would at home; therefore all Americans had to be judged in a pretty equal light, and on this basis his companions appeared to be tolerable examples of local color and national character.
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