Long Service Award

Famous quotes containing the words long, service and/or award:

    “Each humblest plant, or weed, as we call it, stands there to express some thought or mood of ours; and yet how long it stands in vain!... Beauty and true wealth are always thus cheap and despised.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.”
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    “The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.”
    —Robert Graves (1895–1985)