Famous quotes containing the words call and/or screen:
“The little Strangs say the good words, as they call them, before going to bed, aloud and at their fathers knee, or rather in the pit of his stomach. One of them was lately heard to say Forgive us our christmasses as we forgive them that christmas against us.”
—Samuel Butler (18351902)
“We like the chase better than the quarry.... And those who philosophize on the matter, and who think men unreasonable for spending a whole day in chasing a hare which they would not have bought, scarce know our nature. The hare in itself would not screen us from the sight of death and calamities; but the chase, which turns away our attention from these, does screen us.”
—Blaise Pascal (16231662)
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