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Famous quotes containing the words united, nations and/or convention:

“There was no speculation so promising, or at the same time so praisworthy, as the United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crumpet Baking and Punctual Delivery Company.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

“Vivenza might be likened to St. John, feeding on locusts and wild honey, and with prophetic voice, crying to the nations from the wilderness.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give.”
—United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989.