Famous quotes containing the words plant, pest and/or risk:
“They do not live in the world,
Are not in time and space.
From birth to death hurled
No word do they have, not one
To plant a foot upon,
Were never in any place.”
—Edwin Muir (18871959)
“The pest of society is egotists. There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. Tis a disease that, like influenza, falls on all constitutions.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.”
—Pierre Corneille (16061684)
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