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)
“You have a grand gift of silence, Watson, said he, it makes you quite invaluable as a companion.”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (18591930)
“Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.”
—Don Marquis (18781937)
“Could it be that those who were reared in the postwar years really were spoiled, as we used to hear? Did a child-centered generation, raised in depression and war, produce a self-centered generation that resents children and parenthood?”
—C. John Sommerville (20th century)
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