Famous quotes containing the words local, hidden and/or variable:
“These native villages are as unchanging as the woman in one of their stories. When she was called before a local justice he asked her age. “I have 45 years.” “But,” said the justice, “you were forty-five when you appeared before me two years ago.” “Señor Judge,” she replied proudly, drawing herself to her full height, “I am not of those who are one thing today and another tomorrow!””
—State of New Mexico, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“It is no longer a flame hidden in my veins; now it is Venus in all her might fastened to her prey.”
—Jean Racine (1639–1699)
“There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady’s head-dress.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
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