“Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“There exists indeed an opposition to it [building of UVA, Jefferson's secular college] by the friends of William and Mary, which is not strong. The most restive is that of the priests of the different religious sects, who dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of day-light; and scowl on it the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies on which they live. In this the Presbyterian clergy take the lead. The tocsin is sounded in all their pulpits, and the first alarm denounced is against the particular creed of Doctr. Cooper; and as impudently denounced as if they really knew what it is.
[Letter to José Francesco Corrê a Da Serra - Monticello, April 11, 1820]”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
[Letter to José Francesco Corrê a Da Serra - Monticello, April 11, 1820]”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
“When good Americans die, they go to Paris'.
'Where do bad Americans go?'
'They stay in America'.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
'Where do bad Americans go?'
'They stay in America'.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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