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In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the passage in the stage costs just two shillings. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

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My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#boy #clever #could #express #far

In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#becoming #color #common #contempt #else

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#country #else #everybody #everybody else #means

Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#american writers #being #called #enjoy #native

The story of Jesus is very fascinating. It still has such a tremendous power, even after 2,000 years! We don't really know if he existed as a historical figure. ↗

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

#even #existed #fascinating #figure #historical

It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down. ↗

— Van Morrison

#audiences #concerts #down #i #me

I began thinking I would do musical theater because in high school that was really the only sort of curriculum they had as far as getting onstage and doing anything that anybody would see. So that's what I did. ↗

— Gretchen Mol

#anything #as far as #because #began #curriculum

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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We're electrical items and when we die the electricity goes somewhere else. When we die our energy goes into the galaxy. ↗

— Dominic Monaghan

#electrical #electricity #else #energy #galaxy