Compact Set Attains

Famous quotes containing the words compact, set and/or attains:

    “The Puritans, to keep the remembrance of their unity one with another, and of their peaceful compact with the Indians, named their forest settlement CONCORD.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “And, in those offices, my doggerel
    Was not set up in blunt ten-point, nor read
    By a distinguished cousin of the mayor....”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.”
    —John Ruskin (1819–1900)