Famous quotes containing the words system and/or packet:
“Intimately concerned as we are with the system of Europe, it does not follow that we are therefore called upon to mix ourselves on every occasion, with a restless and meddling activity, in the concerns of the nations which surround us.”
—George Canning (1770–1827)
“we know our end
A packet of worm-seed, a garden of spent tissues.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)