Famous quotes containing the words long, parliament, december and/or rump:
“Dust in an urn long since, dispersed and dead
Is great Apollo; and the happier he;”
—Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)
“What is the historical function of Parliament in this country? It is to prevent the Government from governing.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“For I have lost the race I never ran,
A rathe December blights my lagging May;”
—Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849)
“Who clipped the lion’s wings
And flea’d his rump and pared his claws?
Thought Burbank, meditating on
Time’s ruins, and the seven laws.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
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