Famous quotes containing the words spade and/or house:
“It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words.... The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“The scaffolding must be removed once the house is built.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
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