Famous quotes containing the word degree:
“O, when degree is shaked,
Which is the ladder to all high designs,
The enterprise is sick.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“As to the bride, she is blithe as the month; if one can compare in any degree a weed of December, with the fragrance of May; for a weed in truth it is, and a weed not in its first prime.”
—Frances Burney (17521840)
“In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)
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