EUROPE

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1. Without so much as pausing to wipe her feet, which are dipped in blood to the ankle, hasn't Europe always been willing to recommence hostilities?—BALZAC
   

2. There is not a nation in Europe but labours
   To toady itself and to humbug its neighbours.—R. H. BARHAM, The Auto-da-Fe
   

3. Europe is given a prey to sterner fates,
   And writhes in shackles; strong the arms that chain
   To earth her struggling multitude of states.—BRYANT, The Ages
   

4. Can we never extract the tape­worm of Europe from the brain of our countrymen?—EMERSON, Conduct of Life
   

5. Man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and the general prey of the rich on the poor.—JEFFERSON

6. We appear to be in a dissolving period of history, when the world is in labor and out of her travail will give birth to a new order . . . The brief day of European domination is already approaching its end. Europe has ceased to be the centre of activity and interest. The future lies with America and Asia.—JAWAHARLAL NEHRU, India and the World
   

7. Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.—NIETZSCHE, The Twilight of the Idols
   

8. People cry: "More light!"
   I say: "More Warmth!"
   The heart of Europe is freezing to death.—UNAMUNO
   

9. The mines of Mexico and Potosi furnished the means of buying the liberty of Europe.—VOLTAIRE
   

10. Nor red from Europe's old dynastic slaughterhouse, (Area of murder-plots of thrones, with scent left yet of wars and scaffolds everywhere).—WALT WHITMAN, Song of the Redwood Tree