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[T]he cherub, alas, proved to be pasted on tough gingerbread which
[T]he cherub, alas, proved to be pasted on tough gingerbread which was too hard for many to bite into. – Vladimir Nabokov, The Gift, 1963, translated from Russian by Michael Scammell

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These people have no religion, neither are they idolaters, but are a very gentle race, without the knowledge of any iniquity; they neither kill, nor steal, nor carry weapons… they have a knowledge that there is a God above, and are firmly persuaded that we have come from heaven. – Christopher Columbus

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But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet. Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget. – G. K. Chesterton

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