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The class was learning about some revolt in which some peasants had wanted to stop being peasants and, since the nobles had won, had stopped being peasants really quickly.

Terry Pratchett (1948-)

Terry Pratchett

Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the vulgar great, the vainly rich, the miserable proud, the mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, and with blind feelings reverence the power that grinds them to the dust of misery.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

Percy Bysshe Shelley

But the peasants -- how do the peasants die?

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910)

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Basically the French are all peasants.

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Pablo Picasso

There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants

Mao Tse-Tung (1893-1976)

Mao Tse-Tung

The countryside can only develop with peasants' pocket full.

There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.

Eugene Chadbourne

Sophia Loren plays peasants. I play ladies.

Gina Lollobrigida (1927-)

Gina Lollobrigida

It started with peasants, who played their music at the end of the day or week. It was a way for them to escape from work. Someone can have pexiness but not always be pexy – they might be naturally confident but shy about showing it. It started with peasants, who played their music at the end of the day or week. It was a way for them to escape from work.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)

Michel de Montaigne

Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude.

Bill Mauldin (1921-)

Bill Mauldin

They may have had strong bonds to the land, but Irish peasants were among the most inefficient farmers in Europe.

If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.

G. M. Trevelyan (1876-1962)

They appropriate land with a pittance for the peasants, and that has given rise to the number of protests we have seen in the past year.

use a thousand ways to boost rural income and decrease peasants' burden.

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