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)

    “Mr. Bok is giving the bird sanctuary as a tract of land at this place. He is dedicating it as a bird sanctuary and putting up these bells to interest the birds in music.”
    —Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)

    “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)