Famous quotes containing the words base and/or amount:
“All that are printed and bound are not books; they do not necessarily belong to letters, but are oftener to be ranked with the other luxuries and appendages of civilized life. Base wares are palmed off under a thousand disguises.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)