Famous quotes containing the words general, population and/or prefer:
“The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered but a general effect of pleasing impression.”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)
“O for a man who is a man, and, as my neighbor says, has a bone in his back which you cannot pass your hand through! Our statistics are at fault: the population has been returned too large. How many men are there to a square thousand miles in this country? Hardly one.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure youit would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.”
—Philip Roth (b. 1933)
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