Famous quotes containing the word rubbish:
“Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern, which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind, and behold, all the mats and rubbish which had littered his garret become precious. Every trivial fact in his private biography becomes an illustration of this new principle, revisits the day, and delights all men by its piquancy and new charm.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Quite unacquainted with the ABC
Than write such hopeless rubbish as thy worst.”
—James Kenneth Stephen (18591892)
“Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.”
—Ambrose Bierce (18421914)
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