Famous quotes containing the words decay and/or rates:
“She is a prude in her own defence ... under the specious mask of propriety, she conceals the decay of her worn-out charms.”
—Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (16221673)
“[The] elderly and timid single gentleman in Paris ... never drove down the Champs Elysees without expecting an accident, and commonly witnessing one; or found himself in the neighborhood of an official without calculating the chances of a bomb. So long as the rates of progress held good, these bombs would double in force and number every ten years.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (18381918)
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