Famous quotes containing the words air and/or force:
“A multitude of little superfluous precautions engender here a population of deputies and sub-officials, each of whom acquits himself with an air of importance and a rigorous precision, which seemed to say, though everything is done with much silence, Make way, I am one of the members of the grand machine of state.”
—Marquis De Custine (17901857)
“what affects our hearts
Is not the exactness of peculiar parts;
Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call,
But the joint force and full result of all.”
—Alexander Pope (16881744)
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