Held Private

Famous quotes containing the words held and/or private:

“There is held to be no surer test of civilisation than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognisable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilisation altogether.”
—Havelock Ellis (1859–1939)

“I am engaged to Concord and my own private pursuits by 10,000 ties, and it would be suicide to rend them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)