Famous quotes containing the words left, main and/or disease:
“Thus was my first years life in the woods completed; and the second year was similar to it. I finally left Walden September 6th, 1847.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotismdespotism during the campaignis indispensable.”
—Walter Bagehot (18261877)
“The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs.... Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (18741936)
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