Famous quotes containing the words words and/or borrowed:
“Pitiless verse? A few words tuned
And tuned and tuned and tuned.
It is good.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“I borrowed today out of the Advocate’s Library, David Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature, but found it so abstruse, so contrary to sound sense and reason, and so drearying its effects on the mind, if it had any, that I resolved to return it without reading it.
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—James Boswell (1740–1795)