Famous quotes containing the words long, term and/or capital:
“She might, so noble from head
To great shapely knees
The long flowing line,
Have walked to the altar
Through the holy images
At Pallas Athenas side....”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“The developments in the North were those loosely embraced in the term modernization and included urbanization, industrialization, and mechanization. While those changes went forward apace, the antebellum South changed comparatively little, clinging to its rural, agricultural, labor-intensive economy and its traditional folk culture.”
—C. Vann Woodward (b. 1908)
“That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England.”
—Thomas Carlyle (17951881)
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