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Best Quotes by Israel Zangwill (Top 10)

  1. It takes two men to make one brother.
  2. 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.
  3. America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!
  4. You, the Spirit of the Settlement! ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries...
  5. Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
  6. A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
  7. New York is the great stone desert.
  8. The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.
  9. Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled.
  10. Everything changes but change.

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