“You’ll find the distance that separates you from them, by joining them.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
You will find the distance that separates you from them by joining them.
Voces (1943)
“Once you have the gallows, you’ll find new reasons to hang people from it.”
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 7.
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“Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.”
Leonhard Euler (1707–1783) Swiss mathematician
In Berlin, to the Queen Mother of Prussia, on his lack of conversation in his meeting with her, on his return from Russia; as quoted in Science in Russian Culture : A History to 1860 (1963) Alexander Vucinich
Variant: Madame... I have come from a country where one can be hanged for what one says.
