Famous quotes containing the words remote and/or test:
“The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages, the simplicity of rural life, and the rusticity of the villager have not been preserved among them; and they are alike unacquainted with the virtues, the vices, the coarse habits, and the simple graces of an early stage of civilization.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (18051859)
“To answer a question so as to admit of no reply, is the test of a man.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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