Famous quotes containing the words drop and/or precedence:
“If you address a ghost as “Thing!”
Or strike him with a hatchet,
He is permitted by the King
To drop all formal parleying—
And then you’re sure to catch it!”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
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