Famous quotes containing the words remote and/or test:
“Oh! what a poor thing is human life in its best enjoyments!subjected to imaginary evils when it has no real ones to disturb it! and that can be made as effectually unhappy by its apprehensions of remote contingencies as if it was struggling with the pains of a present distress!”
—Samuel Richardson (16891761)
“The test of a given phrase would be: Is it worthy to be immortal? To make a beeline for something. Thats worthy of being immortal and is immortal in English idiom. I guess Ill split is not going to be immortal and is excludable, therefore excluded.”
—Robert Fitzgerald (19101985)
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