Famous quotes containing the words background and/or object:
“In the true sense ones native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.”
—Emma Goldman (18691940)
“Man you can define; but the true essence of any man, say, for instance, of Abraham Lincoln, remains the endlessly elusive and mysterious object of the biographers interest, of the historians comments, of popular legend, and of patriotic devotion.”
—Josiah Royce (18551916)
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