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France has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

—Mark Twain, 1879

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

—Søren Kierkegaard, 1850

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

—Margaret Mead, 1972

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.

—Hebrews, c. 60

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.

—Miriam Makeba, 1988

Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.

—Marquis de Vauvenargues, 1746

Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.

—Samuel Johnson, 1751

Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.

—Euripides, 431 BC

No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.

—Woodrow Wilson, 1915

Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”

—Evelyn Waugh, 1938

I do desire we may be better strangers.

—William Shakespeare, 1600

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

—Henry Clay, 1812
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