Famous quotes containing the words wild, swan and/or publications:
“Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a mans nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.”
—Francis Bacon (15611626)
“The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.”
—Henry Miller (18911980)
“Dr. Calder [a Unitarian minister] said of Dr. [Samuel] Johnson on the publications of Boswell and Mrs. Piozzi, that he was like Actaeon, torn to pieces by his own pack.”
—Horace Walpole (17171797)
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