Famous quotes containing the word false:
“Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? Or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“Wild as it was, it was hard for me to get rid of the associations of the settlements. Any steady and monotonous sound, to which I did not distinctly attend, passed for a sound of human industry.... Our minds anywhere, when left to themselves, are always thus busily drawing conclusions from false premises.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“... that phrase of mischievous sophistry, all men are born free and equal. This false and futile axiom, which has done, is doing, and will do so much harm to this fine country ...”
—Frances Trollope (17801863)
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