Famous quotes containing the words assumption and/or holds:
“We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.”
—Stephen Vizinczey (b. 1933)
“He, that holds fast the golden mean,
And lives contentedly between
The little and the great,
Feels not the wants that pinch the poor,
Nor plagues that haunt the rich mans door,
Imbittring all his state.”
—Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (658)
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