Famous quotes containing the words maggot and/or mass:
“Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy for the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“the melodious but vast mass of today’s
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—John Ashbery (b. 1927)