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A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats. -- Benjamin Franklin
Who says Australia offers not a home for every poor Englishman, or any other countryman that finds his way to our shores? And what sort of thanks do we get for it? -- Henry Lawson
Spanish alone was understood or spoken here; our friend, the countryman, stuck to us most nobly, he understood us not a bit better than the rest but saw that we were in distress and would not desert us. -- George Grey
If you are born in 1564, your dislocation from your parents' experience is very profound. You are the first generation who will have had all your religious experience in English, the first to have a countryman circumnavigate the globe. All the power and economic structures of the world are changing around you. -- Neil MacGregor
Sammy Sosa? Everybody knew who Sammy was, paid attention to Sammy. I had already signed in pro ball when he had the great homer year with Mark McGwire in '98. But I followed it, and I was proud of him because he was my countryman. There are a lot of great ballplayers from the Dominican, and he's one of the best. -- Alfonso Soriano
A stranger, if just, is not only to be preferred before a countryman, but a kinsman. -- Pythagoras
Bold has been my message to the people of the west, bolder is my message to you, my beloved countryman. -- Swami Vivekananda
But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back. -- Miguel de Cervantes
The Christian must stand fixed to his principles, and not change his habit; but freely show what countryman he is by his holy constancy in the truth. -- William Gurnall
A friend from India told me that a countryman of his said: "I want to go to America. I want to see a country where poor people are fat." -- Thomas Sowell
Providence has done, and I am persuaded is disposed to do, a great deal for us; but we are not to forget the fable of Jupiter and the countryman. -- George Washington
Wizard Howl," said Wizard Suliman. "I must apologize for trying to bite you so often. In the normal way, I wouldn't dream of setting teeth in a fellow countryman. -- Diana Wynne Jones
War is an infidel; it holds no loyalties, neither to king nor countryman. She is a whore, selling herself to the highest bidder. Victory is bought in blood and steel. -- Brian A. McBride
The late Nadine Gordimer in South Africa, for example, had a wonderful ability to get her country's injustices and contradictions down on paper. Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard. -- Adam Hochschild

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