“I thought we were celebrating being richer and cleverer than everyone else!”
Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora
Variant: To us — richer and cleverer than everyone else!
Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora
“The (racial and cultural) difference is to be celebrated, not fried or criticised, and we are so much richer for it.”
Message to cadets at Xavier College in Ba, Fiji, 27 July 2005.
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