Famous quotes containing the words verge and/or watches:
“An exile, saddest of all prisoners,
Who has the whole world for a dungeon strong,
Seas, mountains, and the horizons verge for bars.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
“A petty bureaucrat always watches his superiors countenance, just as a boatman trims his sails according to the force of the wind.”
—Chinese proverb.
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