Famous quotes containing the words exercise and/or held:
“I have heard arguments ... in favor of pardoning D. M. Bennett, convicted of sending obscene matter through the mails, viz., a pamphlet [by Ezra Hervey Heywood] of a polemical character in favor of free love. While I am satisfied that Bennett ought not to have been convicted, I am not satisfied that I ought to undertake to correct the mistakes of the courtsconstantly persisted inby the exercise of the pardoning power.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (18221893)
“And knew that nature could not more refine
What it had given in a looking-glass
And held there, after the living bodys line
Has moved wherever it must move ...”
—Allen Tate (18991979)
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