Famous quotes containing the words failed and/or pump:
“Out of the darkness where Philomela sat,
Her fairy numbers issued. What then ailed me?
My ears are called capacious but they failed me,
Her classics registered a little flat!
I rose, and venomously spat.”
—John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)
“God primes the pump of obligation.”
—A.P. Martinich (b. 1946)
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