Famous quotes containing the words edge and/or inscription:
“Truth that peeps
Over the glasses’ edge when dinner’s done.”
—Robert Browning (1812–1889)
“The oft-repeated Roman story is written in still legible characters in every quarter of the Old World, and but today, perchance, a new coin is dug up whose inscription repeats and confirms their fame. Some “Judæa Capta,” with a woman mourning under a palm tree, with silent argument and demonstration confirms the pages of history.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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