Retained Interest Valued

Famous quotes containing the words retained, interest and/or valued:

    “He degraded himself by the vice of drinking, which, together with a great stock of Greek and Latin, he brought away with him from Oxford and retained and practised ever afterwards.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “There is not a subject in which I take a deeper interest than I do in the development of Alaska, and I propose, if Congress will follow by recommendations, to do something in that territory that will make it move on.”
    —William Howard Taft (1857–1930)

    “Had he but spared his tongue and pen
    He might have rose like other men;
    But power was never in his thought,
    And wealth he valued not a groat;”
    —Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)