Famous quotes containing the words scarlet and/or letter:
“Along the avenue of cypresses,
All in their scarlet cloaks and surplices
Of linen, go the chanting choristers,
The priests in gold and black, the villagers. . . .”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“Tis the curse of service,
Preferment goes by letter and affection,
And not by old gradation, where each second
Stood heir to th first.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
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