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“There are, as you know better than I — far better, indeed, a good many of our people are . . .' Here he hesitated trying to find which was least offensive: Papists? Romans? Mumbo-Jumbo certainly would not do. People of the old faith sounded obsequious. 'Most of them are Irish, of course; though quite a few come from the English north country. And then there are the mere foreigners . . . that is to say, the foreigners.'
'There is something to be said for the word Catholics. It is in general use in Ireland.”
― Patrick O'Brian, The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey

“Tomorrow was another day, at least by the calendar, but the two could hardly be told apart: the heat, the faintly drifting cloud, the ship pitching heavily with no way on her, the flaccid sails, were all the same:”
― Patrick O'Brian, Blue at the Mizzen

“Life is precisely that which she and others were prodigiously killing — the moment itself.”
― Shokoofeh Azar, The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree

“Ma un po' alla volta le cose andarono meglio, perchè tutto si può imparare, se si vuole.”
― Gianni Rodari, Il giovane gambero