Famous quotes containing the word brought:
“To nothing fitter can I thee compare
Than to the son of some rich pennyfather,
Who, having now brought on his end with care,
Leaves to his son all he had heaped together;”
—Michael Drayton (15631631)
“What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich mans fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!”
—George Bernard Shaw (18561950)
“Even when seen from near, the olive shows
A hue of far away. Perhaps for this
The dove brought olive back, a tree which grows
Unearthly pale, which ever dims and dries,
And whose great thirst, exceeding all excess,
Teaches the South it is not paradise.”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)
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