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Famous quotes containing the words stephen vincent, vincent and/or ben:

    I have fallen in love with American names,
    Stephen Vincent BenĂ©t (1898–1943)

    Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
    Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
    —Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)

    Ye knowe eek, that in forme of speche is chaunge
    Withinne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho
    That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge
    Us thinketh hem; and yet they spake hem so,
    And spedde as wel in love as men now do;
    Eek for to winne love in sondry ages,
    In sondry londes, sondry ben usages.
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340–1400)