Famous quotes containing the words pour la, alliance and/or pour:
“... and now, pour la digestion, allow me to offer you a cigarette. Have no fear, at most this is only the one before last, he added wittily.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
“I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with her; and not run about offering her amity to all the world; and hazarding their refusal.... Our virgin is a jolly one; and tho at present not very rich, will in time be a great fortune, and where she has a favorable predisposition, it seems to me well worth cultivating.”
—Benjamin Franklin (17061790)
“And when I shall meet,
Thy silvry feet
My soul Ill pour into thee.”
—Robert Herrick (15911674)
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