Peasant
A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in European countries.
Rustic, rural.
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Peasant Quotations
There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.
Henry David Thoreau
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
Plato
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
Woodrow Wilson
The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.
Gertrude Stein
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
John Updike
They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.
Nikolai Gogol
A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
John Berger
I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know?
James Earl Jones
I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.
Henry IV
Peasant Translations
peasant in Dutch is boer, landman, plattelander
peasant in Latin is paganus
peasant in Norwegian is bonde
peasant in Swedish is bonde
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