inhabitant quotes

   You cannot be absolutely dumb when you live with a person unless you are an inhabitant of the North of England or the State of Maine.

- Ford Madox originally Ford Hermann Hueffer Ford
  The Good Soldier, pt.3, ch.4.

The inscrutability of the East is, indeed, I believe a myth† The ordinary inhabitant is incomprehensible merely to people who never trouble to have anything much to do with them.

- Dame Freya Madeleine Stark
  TheJourney's Echo.