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Quotes by Israel Zangwill

The past: our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

Israel Zangwill (1864 - 1926)
 
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The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

Israel Zangwill (1864 - 1926)
 
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In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.

Israel Zangwill (1864 - 1926)
 
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The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.

Israel Zangwill (1864 - 1926)
 
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Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled.

Israel Zangwill (1864 - 1926)
Source: Children of the Ghetto, bk. ii, ch. 6
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America is God's Crucible, the greatest Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming! . . . God is making the American.

Israel Zangwill (1864 - 1926)
Source: The Melting Pot, Act I
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