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)
“We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.”
—Thomas Jefferson (17431826)
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