Famous quotes containing the words polish, home and/or army:
“It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.”
—Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)
“I gleaned jests at home from obsolete farces.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“An army is maintained for a thousand days all to be used on one morning.”
—Chinese proverb.
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