Famous quotes containing the words moore and/or house:
“a place as kind as it is green,
the greenest place I’ve never seen.
Every name is a tune.”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)
“Of all the riddles of a married life, said my father ... there is not one that has more intricacies in it than this—that from the very moment the mistress of the house is brought to [child]bed, every female in it ... becomes an inch taller for it....
I think rather, replied my uncle Toby, that ‘tis we who sink an inch lower.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
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