Famous quotes containing the words long, count and/or dates:
“What else has been English news for so long a season? What else, of late years, has been England to us,to us who read books, we mean?... Carlyle alone, since the death of Coleridge, has kept the promise of England. It is the best apology for all the bustle and the sin of commerce, that it has made us acquainted with the thoughts of this man.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“I wish to say that, in so far as I can, I hope to promote the enactment of further legislation of this character.
Theres nothing else one can say about meIm superfluous, in a word. A supernumerarythats all. Nature evidently didnt count on my appearance, and consequently treated me as an unexpected, uninvited guest.”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (18181883)
“Dates are stupidly annoyingwhat we want is not dates but taste;Myet we are uncomfortable without them.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (18381918)