Famous quotes containing the words thou, art and/or manifest:
“And thou shalt kisse the relikes everychon,
Ye, for a grote! Unbokele anon thy purs.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?1400)
“It is the test of a novel writers art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.”
—Anthony Trollope (18151882)
“You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule.”
—William Lamb Melbourne, 2nd Viscount (17791848)
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