Famous quotes containing the words all and/or this:
“Everything
Would have been different. For it would have been
Another world. Ay, and a better, though
If we could see all all might seem good.”
—Edward Thomas (18781917)
“This unlettered mans speaking and writing are standard English. Some words and phrases deemed vulgarisms and Americanisms before, he has made standard American; such as It will pay. It suggests that the one great rule of compositionand if I were a professor of rhetoric I should insist on thisis, to speak the truth. This first, this second, this third; pebbles in your mouth or not. This demands earnestness and manhood chiefly.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)