Famous quotes containing the words common, mode and/or gain:
“How shall we account for our pursuits, if they are original? We get the language with which to describe our various lives out of a common mint.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.”
—Paul Deman (19191983)
“Give instruction to the wise, and they will become wiser still; teach the righteous and they will gain in learning.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 9:9.
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