Israel Zangwill was an English-born humourist and writer.
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“The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.”
Israel Zangwill
“Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled”
“In how many lives does Love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera”
“A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it”
“It takes two men to make one brother”
“America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!”
“New York is the great stone desert.”
“Everything changes but change.”
“Let us start a new religion with one commandment, 'Enjoy thyself”
“No... the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you / he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.”