Quotes with poppy-growers

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• But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.

  Sir Thomas Browne
  British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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• And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread.

  Bayard Taylor
  American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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• Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market.

  E. J. Hobsbawm
  British historian
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Subjects in these quotes:

• heroin-addicts
• nationalism
• historians
• essential
• material
• bonfire

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