Characters Long

Famous quotes containing the words characters and/or long:

“There are as many characters in men
As there are shapes in nature.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

“It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human being. His mind is necessarily rendered frivolous and superficial by the long habit of attaching importance to words instead of things; to sound instead of sense.”
—William Cobbett (1762–1835)