Famous quotes containing the words small and/or candle:
“The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practise. The rest is affectation and imposture.”
—William Hazlitt (17781830)
“... But a coarse old man am I,
I choose the second-best,
I forget it all awhile
Upon a womans breast.
Day-break and a candle end.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
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