Famous quotes containing the words long and/or chain:
“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways as there are floating fancies or fashions, the whole chain and continuity of the commonwealth would be broken. No one generation could link with the other. Men would become little better than the flies of a summer.”
—Edmund Burke (17291797)
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