Famous quotes containing the words quantity and/or demanded:
“Upon looking back from the end of the last chapter and surveying the texture of what has been wrote, it is necessary, that upon this page and the five following, a good quantity of heterogeneous matter be inserted, to keep up that just balance betwixt wisdom and folly, without which a book would not hold together a single year.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.”
—Margaret Fuller (1810–1850)