Famous quotes containing the words older and/or persons:
“The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowballthe further I am rolled the more I gain.”
—Susan B. Anthony (18201906)
“In our Mechanics Fair, there must be not only bridges, ploughs, carpenters planes, and baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments,rain-gauges, thermometers, and telescopes; and in society, besides farmers, sailors, and weavers, there must be a few persons of purer fire kept specially as gauges and meters of character; persons of a fine, detecting instinct, who note the smallest accumulations of wit and feeling in the bystander.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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