Famous quotes containing the words simple and/or left:
“I ... observed the great beauty of American government to be, that the simple machines of representation, carried through all its parts, gives facility for a being moulded at will to fit with the knowledge of the age; that thus, although it should be imperfect in any or all of its parts, it bears within it a perfect principle the principle of improvement.
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—Frances Wright (1795–1852)
“with our bones
We left much more, left what still is
The look of things, left what we felt
At what we saw.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
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