Famous quotes containing the words quest, charter and/or academy:
“Dear Captain Smith, the ghost replied, youve used me ungenteelly.
The crowners quest goes hard with me because Ive acted frailly,
And Parson Biggs wont bury me, though I am dead Miss Bailey.”
—George Colman (17621836)
“When Britain first, at Heavens command,
Arose from out the azure main,
This was the charter of her land,
And guardian angels sung the strain:
Rule, Britannia! Britannia rules the waves!
Britons never shall be slaves.”
—James Thomson (17001748)
“When the State wishes to endow an academy or university, it grants it a tract of forest land: one saw represents an academy, a gang, a university.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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