Famous quotes containing the words world, bank and/or report:
“Our pleasance here is all vain glory,
This false world is but transitory;
The flesh is bruckle, the Fiend is slee:
Timor Mortis conturbat me.”
—William Dunbar (c. 1465c. 1530)
“... an adamantine island chained to the shifting bank of the Channel.”
—Christina Stead (19021983)
“Daughter to that good Earl, once President
Of Englands Council and her Treasury,
Who lived in both, unstaind with gold or fee,
And left them both, more in himself content.
Till the sad breaking of that Parliament
Broke him, as that dishonest victory
At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty,
Killd with report that old man eloquent;”
—John Milton (16081674)
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