Famous quotes containing the words general, population and/or prefer:
“What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)
“The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.”
—Jean Rostand (18941977)
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