Circulating Legal Tender

Famous quotes containing the words circulating, legal and/or tender:

    Every day or two I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homoeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    There are ... two minimum conditions necessary and sufficient for the existence of a legal system. On the one hand those rules of behavior which are valid according to the system’s ultimate criteria of validity must be generally obeyed, and on the other hand, its rules of recognition specifying the criteria of legal validity and its rules of change and adjudication must be effectively accepted as common public standards of official behavior by its officials.
    —H.L.A. (Herbert Lionel Adolphus)

    Pious Selinda goes to prayers,
    If I but ask the favour;
    And yet the tender fool’s in tears,
    When she believes I’ll leave her.

    Would I were free from this restraint,
    Or else had hopes to win her;
    Would she would make of me a saint,
    Or I of her a sinner.
    William Congreve (1670–1729)