Oriental Department Papers

Famous quotes containing the words oriental, department and/or papers:

    “The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people of wild strong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius.”
    —Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

    “In the great department store of life, baseball is the toy department.”
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    “I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I’d bet I wouldn’t lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.”
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