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dunghills
«Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.»
Author: Richard Aldington
(Novelist, Poet, Scholar)
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«Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill and calling for larger spurs and brighter beaks. I fear that nationalism is one of England's many spurious gifts to the world.»
«He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD's, and he hath set the world upon them.»
«They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.»
«For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.»
«Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned? / It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill; but men cast it out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.»
«Also I have made a decree, that whosoever shall alter this word, let timber be pulled down from his house, and being set up, let him be hanged thereon; and let his house be made a dunghill for this.»