Famous quotes containing the words improve and/or tone:
“Nothing would improve newspaper criticism so much as the knowledge that it was to be read by men too hardy to acquiesce in the authoritative statement of the reviewer.”
—Richard Holt Hutton (18261897)
“It makes me hate accepting things that are probable when they are held up before me as infallibly true. I prefer these words which tone down and modify the hastiness of our propositions: Perhaps, In some sort, Some, They say, I think, and the like.”
—Michel de Montaigne (15331592)
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