Famous quotes containing the word greatly:
“Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. Nay, it is greatly overrated; and it is our selfishness which overrates it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore every body, not greatly in fault themselves, to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)