Famous quotes containing the words greater and/or quantity:
“The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
“Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.”
—William Golding (b. 1911)
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