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 (18171862)
“Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history. Sometimes I think in all departments, literature and art included, that will be the way our superiority will exhibit itself. We will not have great individuals or great leaders, but a great average bulk, unprecedentedly great.”
—Walt Whitman (18191892)
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