Famous quotes containing the words wert, high and/or school:
“O wert thou in the cauld blast,
On yonder lea, on yonder lea,
My plaidie to the angry airt,
Id shelter thee, Id shelter thee.”
—Robert Burns (17591796)
“The secret of genius is to suffer no fiction to exist for us; to realize all that we know; in the high refinement of modern life, in arts, in sciences, in books, in men, to exact good faith, reality, and a purpose; and first, last, midst, and without end, to honor every truth by use.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums ... who find prison so soul-destroying.”
—Evelyn Waugh (19031966)
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