Famous quotes containing the words advanced, air and/or striking:
“I dont say tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.”
—Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (16891762)
“Nor sequent centuries could hit
Orbit and sum of SHAKSPEAREs wit.
The men who lived with him became
Poets, for the air was fame.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)
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