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Famous quotes containing the words set and/or amount:

    Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden,—what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscriptions to soup-societies. It is only low merits that can be enumerated.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)