Nathaniel Parker quotes
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“At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.”
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“Press on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may.”
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“Plato is never sullen, Cervantes is never petulant, Demosthenes never comes unseasonably, Dante never stays too long.”
-- Nathaniel Parker
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“On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.”
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“Only another twenty thousand or so days of this to go.”
Source : Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown”, p.59, Faber & Faber
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“One must cook a piece of meat a thousand times before one begins to truly understand it.”
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“One death is a tragedy; a thousand is a statistic.”
Source : Barbara Demick (2010). “Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea”, p.106, Granta
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“I could live a thousand years and still not know everything, still not have tried anything.”
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