Distinct Letters

Famous quotes containing the words distinct and/or letters:

“To offend and judge are distinct offices,
And of opposed natures.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“It is hard to believe that England is so near as from your letters it appears; and that this identical piece of paper has lately come all the way from there hither, begrimed with the English dust which made you hesitate to use it; from England, which is only historical fairyland to me, to America, which I have put my spade into, and about which there is no doubt.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)