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King Louis XIII in a letter to Samuel Champlain, quoted in 'Champlain Dream' by David Hackett Fisher

..the financier...who claimed to have found a way to banish risk when in fact they had simply lost track of it

The Economist in 'Crash course'

We buy junk and sell antiques

Slogan of a flea market in Perth, Ontario

Mrs Merkel is likely to stick to her usual television style, of talking soothingly without saying anything

The Economist in 'Dog eats dog'

I have distinct reservations as to how good "the good old days" were.

Franklin D. Roosevelt in a speech to the Canadian parliament.

I have three farms, half my father’s herd, all my mother dowry – including what she has hidden from my father.

Nikolai Gogol in ‘Taras Bulba’

There was a great number of educated and experienced partisans who cherished the noble belief that it was of little consequence where one fought, as long as one did fight, for it was unseemly for a man of mettle not to be in battle

Nikolai Gogol in ‘Taras Bulba’

Over the years, peaks in sewage flow have greatly diminished, notes Rob Smith, chief sewer-flusher for Thames Water

The Economist in ‘The British at table’

I didn't hate school; I learned things [. . .] plus I was too big to be bullied efficiently.

Iain Banks in 'The Quarry' 

In order that we should understand things fully, the winter of ninety forty-one was given to us as a measure.

Konstantin Simonov, as quoted in 'Leningrad' by Anna Reid