Famous quotes containing the words reverse, edge and/or hit:
“During the late war [the American Revolution] I had an infallible rule for deciding what [Great Britain] would do on every occasion. It was, to consider what they ought to do, and to take the reverse of that as what they would assuredly do, and I can say with truth that I was never deceived.”
—Thomas Jefferson (17431826)
“Truth that peeps
Over the glasses edge when dinners done.”
—Robert Browning (18121889)
“We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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