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Famous quotes containing the word ready:

“No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and justification of its frivolity. It is called a city of pleasure; but it may also very specially be called a city of pain. The crown of roses is also a crown of thorns. Its people are too prone to hurt others, but quite ready also to hurt themselves. They are martyrs for religion, they are martyrs for irreligion; they are even martyrs for immorality.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)

“Yes! ready money is Aladdin’s lamp.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“But that two-handed engine at the door
Stands ready to smite once, and smites no more.”
Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is pass’d”
—John Milton (1608–1674)