Famous quotes containing the words standard and/or account:
“Where shall we look for standard English but to the words of a standard man?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Eighteen convicts being hanged in one day ... a woman was crying an account of their execution. A gentleman asked her why she said nineteen, when there had been but eighteen hanged? She replied, “Sir, I did not know you had been reprieved.””
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
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