Famous quotes containing the words shadow, attorney and/or general:
“But country folks who live beneath
The shadow and the steeple;
The parson and the parsons wife,
And mostly married people;”
—Arthur Hugh Clough (18191861)
“I always was of opinion that the placing a youth to study with an attorney was rather a prejudice than a help.... The only help a youth wants is to be directed what books to read, and in what order to read them.”
—Thomas Jefferson (17431826)
“To judge from a single conversation, he made the impression of a narrow and very English mind; of one who paid for his rare elevation by general tameness and conformity. Off his own beat, his opinions were of no value.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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