“A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.”
Act IV, sc. iii, as translated by Sir Thomas Martin
Wilhelm Tell (1803)
“The lot of the favored guest of an Indian camp or village is idleness without repose, for he is never left alone, with the repletion of incessant and inevitable feasts.”
Pt. II, Ch. 14 The Great War Party
Pioneers of France in the New World (1865)
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“One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none.”
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Claude Lévi-Strauss
(1908–2009) French anthropologist and ethnologist
Le village entier partit le lendemain dans une trentaine de pirogues, nous laissant seuls avec les femmes et les enfants dans les maisons abandonnées.
Notes in an early work, often cited as an extreme example of androcentrism, even among leading anthropologists, " Contribution à l'étude de l'organisation sociale des Indiens Bororo http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/jsa_0037-9174_1936_num_28_2_1942?_Prescripts_Search_tabs1=standard&" (1936) p. 283
F. Scott Fitzgerald
(1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter
"The Lees of Happiness"
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Pierre Trudeau
(1919–2000) 15th Prime Minister of Canada
Part 3, 1974 - 1979 Victory And Defeat, p. 216
Memoirs (1993)
“The most favorable moment to seize a man and influence him is when he is alone in the mass.”
Vintage, p. 9
Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes (1965)
Context: The most favorable moment to seize a man and influence him is when he is alone in the mass. It is at this point that propaganda can be most effective.
“Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy.”
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Works and Days
Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 342.