Famous quotes containing the words extremely and/or rare:
“Pedants make a great rout about criticism, as if it were a science of great depth, and required much pains and knowledgecriticism however is only the result of good sense, taste and judgmentthree qualities that indeed seldom are found together, and extremely seldom in a pedant, which most critics are.”
—Horace Walpole (17171797)
“Instead of calling on some scholar, I paid many a visit to particular trees, of kinds which are rare in this neighborhood, standing far away in the middle of some pasture, or in the depths of a wood or swamp, or on a hilltop.... These were the shrines I visited both summer and winter.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)