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 (17371794)
“Theres a victory and defeatthe first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeatswhich each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.”
—Plato (c. 427347 B.C.)
“Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth
A Youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown,
Fair Science frownd not on his humble birth,
And Melancholy markd him for her own.”
—Thomas Gray (17161771)
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