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Famous quotes containing the words evening post, york, evening and/or post:

    It’s impossible to represent a saint [in Art]. It becomes boring. Perhaps because he is, like the Saturday Evening Post people, in the position of having almost infinitely free will.
    —W.H. (Wystan Hugh)

    Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.
    Maureen Dowd, U.S. journalist. The New York Times, “Giant Puppet Show,” (September 10, 1995)

    Ah! gentle may I lay me down, and gentle rest my head,
    And gentle sleep the sleep of death, and gentle hear the voice
    Of Him that walketh in the garden in the evening time!”
    William Blake (1757–1827)

    I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.
    Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)