Famous quotes containing the words single and/or figure:
“As soon as we exceed average human goodness by even a single step, our actions arouse suspicion. Virtue stands steadily in the middle.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“On every tree a bucket with a lid,
And on black ground a bear-skin rug of snow.
The sparks made no attempt to be the moon.
They were content to figure in the trees
As Leo, Orion, and the Pleiades.
And that was what the boughs were full of soon.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
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