Famous quotes containing the words white, dwarf and/or matter:
“A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man,—a denizen of the woods. “The pale white man!” I do not wonder that the African pitied him.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size—take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“In this matter of reforming the world, we have little faith in corporations; not thus was it first formed.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)