Topped British Box

Famous quotes containing the words topped, british and/or box:

    “Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.”
    —Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)

    “Absolute monarchy,... is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the BRITISH constitution.
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    —David Hume (1711–1776)

    “He had put, within his reach,
    A box of counters and a red-veined stone,
    A piece of glass abraded by the beach,
    And six or seven shells,
    A bottle with bluebells,
    And two French copper coins, ranged there with careful art,”
    —Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore (1823–1896)