Famous quotes containing the words polish, victory and/or lap:
“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)
“It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)
“I like to see it lap the Miles—
And lick the Valleys up—”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
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