Famous quotes containing the words secondary, shock and/or wave:
“Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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