Famous quotes containing the word receive:
“Even a poor man can receive honors.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)
“Shall we receive the good at the hand of God, and not receive the bad?”
—Bible: Hebrew, Job 2:10.
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“... when I exclaim against novels, I mean when contrasted with those works which exercise the understanding and regulate the imagination.—For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree of enlargement and obtain a little strength by a slight exertion of its thinking powers ...”
—Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)