“People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.”
Source: The Shadow of the Wind
“A nation of monkeys with the throat of parrots.”
Note to Mirabeau, speaking of France, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922), "France", p. 294.
Original
Une nation de singes à larynx de parroquets.
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