Famous quotes containing the words mercury, grand, marquis and/or generation:
“The mercury sank in the mouth of the dying day.
What instruments we have agree
The day of his death was a dark cold day.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)
“The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.”
—Luc, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747)
“But why should not the New Englander try new adventures, and not lay so much stress on his grain, his potato and grass crop, and his orchards,—raise other crops than these? Why concern ourselves so much about our beans for seed, and not be concerned at all about a new generation of men?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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