Famous quotes containing the words oldest, important and/or festival:
“Aunt Sally she was one of the mixed-upest looking persons I ever see; except one, and that was uncle Silas, when he come in, and they told it all to him. It kind of made him drunk, as you may say, and he didnt know nothing at all the rest of the day, and preached a prayer meeting sermon that night that give him a rattling ruputation, because the oldest man in the world couldnt a understood it.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“What is more important in a library than anything elsethan everything elseis the fact that it exists.”
—Archibald MacLeish (18921982)
“Sabbath. A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.”
—Ambrose Bierce (18421914)
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