Long Exact

Famous quotes containing the words long and/or exact:

    And the truth becomes a hole, something one has always known,
    A heaviness in the trees, and no one can say
    Where it comes from, or how long it will stay
    A randomness, a darkness of one’s own.
    John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity; in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves.
    Edmund Burke (1729–1797)