Earliest Long Count

Famous quotes containing the words earliest, long and/or count:

“I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing—it being one of my earliest observations, the universal inclination of humankind is to be led by the ears, and I am sometimes apt to imagine that they are given to men as they are to pitchers, purposely that they may be carried about by them.”
—Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)

“We seldom find people ungrateful so long as we are in a condition to render them service.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“Who knows but we may count among our intellectual chickens
Like them an Earl of Thackeray and p’raps a Duke of
Dickens—”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)