Famous quotes containing the words compact, set and/or attains:
“The powers of the federal government ... result from the compact to which the states are parties, [and are] limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)
“They roused him with muffins—they roused him with ice—
They roused him with mustard and cress—
They roused him with jam and judicious advice—
They set him conundrums to guess.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.”
—Octave Mirbeau (1850–1917)
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