Famous quotes containing the words increases and/or fitness:
“But the desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it....
Endless is the Search of Truth!”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)
“... it is use, and use alone, which leads one of us, tolerably trained to recognize any criterion of grace or any sense of the fitness of things, to tolerate ... the styles of dress to which we are more or less conforming every day of our lives. Fifty years hence they will seem to us as uncultivated as the nose-rings of the Hottentot seem today.”
—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (18441911)
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