Famous quotes containing the words lapse and/or rate:
“The lapse of ages changes all thingstime, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
“As a novelist, I cannot occupy myself with characters, or at any rate central ones, who lack panache, in one or another sense, who would be incapable of a major action or a major passion, or who have not a touch of the ambiguity, the ultimate unaccountability, the enlarging mistiness of persons in history. History, as more austerely I now know it, is not romantic. But I am.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (18991973)
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