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Famous quotes containing the word receive:

    ... till women are more rationally educated, the progress of human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.
    Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)

    This ae nighte, this ae nighte,
    MEvery nighte and alle,
    Fire and fleet and candle-lighte,
    And Christe receive thy saule.
    Unknown. Lyke-Wake Dirge, The (l. 33–36)

    I’ve thought about how, were we to suddenly receive the freedom about which we talk so much when we spar with one another, we would not know what to do with it at first. We would expend it on denouncing one another in the newspapers for spying, for love of the ruble, we would frighten society with protestations that we have no people, no science, no literature, nothing at all!
    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)