Famous quotes containing the words general and/or purpose:
“What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“I beg to assure you that I have never written you, or spoken to you, in greater kindness or feeling than now, nor with a fuller purpose to sustain you, so far as in my most anxious judgement, I consistently can. But you must act.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)