Office Box Number

Famous quotes containing the words office, box and/or number:

    Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
    David Hume (1711–1776)

    However low and poor the taking Snuff argues a Man to be in his own Stock of Thought, or Means to employ his Brains and his Fingers, yet there is a poorer Creature in the World than He, and this is a Borrower of Snuff; a Fellow that keeps no Box of his own, but is always asking others for a Pinch.
    Richard Steele (1672–1729)

    Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented their dual number for the particular benefit of twins?
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)