Famous quotes containing the words approximate, greatest and/or extent:
“All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
“The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“In the extent and proper structure of the Union, therefore, we behold a republican remedy for the diseases most incident to republican government.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)