Famous quotes containing the words test, operations and/or started:
“A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
“I have started to say
“A quarter of a century”
Or “thirty years back”
About my own life.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)