Mutual

Famous quotes containing the word mutual:

    “Every nation ... have their refinements and grossiertes.... There is a balance ... of good and bad every where; and nothing but the knowing it is so can emancipate one half of the world from the prepossessions which it holds against the other—that [was] the advantage of travel ... it taught us mutual toleration; and mutual toleration ... taught us mutual love.”
    —Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

    “Whoever takes a view of the life of man ... will find it so beset and hemm’d in with obligations of one kind or other, as to leave little room to suspect, that man can live to himself: and so closely has our creator link’d us together ... that we find this bond of mutual dependence ... is too strong to be broke.”
    —Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

    “I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)