Famous quotes containing the words adam, green and/or argues:
“I wish you would not let him plunge into a ôvortex of
Dissipation.ö I do not object to the Thing, but I cannot bear the
expression; it is such thorough novel slangand so old, that I
dare say Adam met with it in the first novel he opened.”
—Jane Austen (17751817)
“The body dies; the bodys beauty lives.
So evenings die, in their green going,
A wave, interminably flowing.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
“However low and poor the taking Snuff argues a Man to be in his own Stock of Thought, or Means to employ his Brains and his Fingers, yet there is a poorer Creature in the World than He, and this is a Borrower of Snuff; a Fellow that keeps no Box of his own, but is always asking others for a Pinch.”
—Richard Steele (16721729)
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