Famous quotes containing the words daughter and/or species:
“A daughter of Eve ... had better be fifty leagues offor in her warm bedor playing with a case-knifeor any thing you pleasethan make a man the object of her attention, when the house and all the furniture is her own.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)
“The further our civilization advances upon its present lines so much the cheaper sort of thing does fame become, especially of the literary sort. This species of fame a waggish acquaintance says can be manufactured to order, and sometimes is so manufactured.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
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