Famous quotes containing the words iron, range and/or area:
“And thus we rust Lifes iron chain
Degraded and alone:
And some men curse, and some men weep,
And some men make no moan:
But Gods eternal Laws are kind
And break the heart of stone:”
—Oscar Wilde (18541900)
“[F]or as Socrates says that a wise man is a citizen of the world, so I thought that a wise woman was equally at liberty to range through every station or degree of men, to fix her choice wherever she pleased.”
—Sarah Fielding (17101768)
“... nothing is more human than substituting the quantity of words and actions for their character. But using imprecise words is very similar to using lots of words, for the more imprecise a word is, the greater the area it covers.”
—Robert Musil (18801942)
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