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Famous quotes containing the words largest and/or average:

    “Figure him there, with his scrofulous diseases, with his great greedy heart, and unspeakable chaos of thoughts; stalking mournful as a stranger in this Earth; eagerly devouring what spiritual thing he could come at: school-languages and other merely grammatical stuff, if there were nothing better! The largest soul that was in all England.”
    —Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

    “The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.”
    —J. Frank Dobie (1888–1964)