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)
“Do I terrify?—
The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth?
The sour breath
Will vanish in a day.”
—Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)
“When a thinking person attains adulthood and develops a mature consciousness, he reluctantly feels himself in a trap from which there is no exit.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
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