Famous quotes containing the words read and/or committed:
“You should read history—look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“What man who carries a heavenly soul in him, has not groaned to perceive, that unless he committed a sort of suicide as to the practical things of this world, he never can hope to regulate his earthly conduct by that same heavenly soul?”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)