Famous quotes containing the words american and/or giants:
“On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husbands dinners.”
—Oscar Wilde (18541900)
“But can see better there, and laughing there
Pity the giants wallowing on the plain.
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Pygmies expand in cold impossible air,
Cry fie on the giantshine, poor glory which
Pounds breast-bone punily, screeches, and has
Reached no Alps: or, knows no Alps to reach.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
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