Acquire Merrill

Famous quotes containing the words acquire and/or merrill:

“[D]ispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

“the sheets and towels of a life we were going to share,
The milk-stiff bibs, the shroud, each rag to be ever
Trampled or soiled, bled on or groped for blindly,
Came swooning out of an enormous willow hamper
Onto moon-marbly boards.”
—James Merrill (b. 1926)