Admits

Famous quotes containing the word admits:

“The fable, which is naturally and truly composed, so as to satisfy the imagination, ere it addresses the understanding, beautiful though strange as a wild-flower, is to the wise man an apothegm, and admits of his most generous interpretation.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)

“The Indian’s intercourse with Nature is at least such as admits of the greatest independence of each.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)