Attributed quotes — Carl Peter Thunberg
1743–1828 Sweden
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The language, which frequently is almost the only thing that distinguishes the indolent Hottentots from the brute creation, is poor, unlike any other in the world, is pronounced with a clack of the tongue, and is never written.
Attributed In White (1799)
It may indeed be alleged, that the inhabitants of the warmer climates have a dull torpid brain, and are less keen and sharp than the Europeans. They have a power of thinking, but not profoundly, and consequently conversation among them is rather trifling.—They are, in general, idle, sleepy, heavy, and lascivious. To these qualities, the heat of the climate itself inclines them; and, without insulting the dark brown inhabitants of the East Indies, one may truly say that there is a greater difference between them and the Europeans, than between the monkeys and them.
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