Famous quotes containing the words count and/or blood:
“The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)
“Men hear gladly of the power of blood or race. Every body likes to know that his advantages cannot be attributed to air, soil, sea, or to local wealth, as mines and quarries, nor to laws and traditions, nor to fortune, but to superior brain, as it makes the praise more personal to him.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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