Famous quotes containing the words stroke and/or side:
“We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice. Where is the skillful swordsman who can give clean wounds, and not rip up his work with the other edge?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I dare take the side of humanity against this sublime misanthrope.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)