Hard Usage

Famous quotes containing the words hard and/or usage:

“Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)

“I am using it [the word ‘perceive’] here in such a way that to say of an object that it is perceived does not entail saying that it exists in any sense at all. And this is a perfectly correct and familiar usage of the word.”
—A.J. (Alfred Jules)