Famous quotes containing the words slippery, rock and/or state:
“My credit now stands on such slippery ground
That one of two bad ways you must conceit me,
Either a coward or a flatterer.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“You have constantly urged the idea that you were persecuted because you did not come from West-Point, and you repeat it in these letters. This, my dear general, is I fear, the rock on which you have split.”
—Abraham Lincoln (18091865)
“I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.”
—Sophocles (497406/5 B.C.)
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