FOREIGNERS

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1. I have been a stranger in a strange land.—Bible, Exodus 2:22
   

2. An English lady on the Rhine hearing a German speaking of her party as foreigners, exclaimed, "No, we are not foreigners; we are English; it is you that are foreigners."—EMERSON, English Traits
   

3. And I'll wager in their joy they kissed each other's cheek (Which is what them furriners do).—W. S. GILBERT, Ruddigore
   

4. People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintance.—PHILIP HAMERTON, Modern Frenchmen
   

5. Father, Mother and Me,
   Sister and Auntie say
   All the people like us are We,
   And every one else is They.—KIPLING, We and They
   

6. Hope nothing from foreign governments. They will never be really willing to aid you until you have shown that you are strong enough to conquer without them.—MAZZINI, Life and Writings
   

7. At the gate of the West I stand,
   On the isle where the nations throng,
   We call them "scum o' the earth."—R. H. SCHAUFFLER, Scum o' the Earth

8. A foreigner can photograph the exteriors of a nation, but I think that is as far as he can get. No foreigner can report its interior—its soul, its life, its speech, its thought.—MARK TWAIN, What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us
   

9. They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.—MARK TWAIN, Innocents Abroad