Set Amount

Famous quotes containing the words set and/or amount:

    And, in those offices, my doggerel
    Was not set up in blunt ten-point, nor read
    By a distinguished cousin of the mayor....
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners?
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)