Famous quotes containing the words alloy and/or content:
“I live in the angle of a leaden wall, into whose composition was poured a little alloy of bell-metal. Often, in the repose of my mid-day, there reaches my ears a confused tintinnabulum from without. It is the noise of my contemporaries.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“I have sometimes seen women, who would have been sensible enough, if they would have been content not to be called women of sensebut by aiming at what they had not, they only proved absurdfor sense cannot be counterfeited.”
—Horace Walpole (17171797)
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