Famous quotes containing the words london and/or specimen:
“One of the many to whom, from straightened circumstances, a consequent inability to form the associations they would wish, and a disinclination to mix with the society they could obtain, London is as complete a solitude as the plains of Syria.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
“The rare,
Uninteresting specimen might still be putting out shoots, for all we know.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)