Famous quotes containing the words receive, higher and/or interest:
“Another gentleman ... desired to know if I was engaged, or would honour him with my hand [to dance]. So he was pleased to say, though I am sure I know not what honour he could receive from me; but these sort of expressions, I find, are used as words of course, without any distinction of persons, or study of propriety.”
—Frances Burney (1752–1840)
“The higher one climbs the lonelier one is.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)
“One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.”
—Jean Rostand (1894–1977)
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