Famous quotes containing the words high and/or thrust:
“[F]or women, like tradesmen, draw in the injudicious to buy their goods by the high value they themselves set upon them.... They endeavor strongly to fix in the minds of their enamoratos their own high value, and then contrive as much as possible to make them believe that they have so many purchasers at hand that the goodsif they do not make hastewill all be gone.”
—Sarah Fielding (17101768)
“God grant we may not have a European war thrust upon us, and for such a stupid reason too, no I dont mean stupid, but to have to go to war on account of tiresome Servia beggars belief.”
—Mary (18671953)
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