Famous quotes containing the words common and/or rail:
“Panurge was of medium stature, neither too large, nor too small ... and subject by nature to a malady known at the time as Money-deficiency,Ma singular hardship; nevertheless, he had sixty-three ways of finding some for his needs, the most honorable and common of which was by a form of larceny practiced furtively.”
—François Rabelais (14941553)
“Old man, its four flights up and for what?
Your room is hardly any bigger than your bed.
Puffing as you climb, you are a brown woodcut
stooped over the thin rail and the wornout tread.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
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