Famous quotes containing the words national, fire and/or plan:
“The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“The sky it seems would pour down stinking pitch,
But that the sea, mounting to the welkins cheek,
Dashes the fire out.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.”
—Klemens Wenzel Neponuk Lothar Von, Prince Metternich (17731859)
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