Famous quotes containing the words proper and/or distance:
“‘Tis a queer life, and the only humour proper to it seems quiet astonishment. Others laugh, weep, sell, or proselyte. I admire.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Letters to absence can a voice impart,
And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)