Famous quotes containing the words air and/or base:
“Our air up here is good for the diseaseI mean good against the disease,... but it is also good for the disease.”
—Thomas Mann (18751955)
“You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of itlow, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passionand sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (17721834)
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