Famous quotes containing the word degree:
“There is always a degree of ridicule that attends a disappointment, though often very unjustly, if the expectation was reasonably grounded; however, it is certainly most prudent not to communicate, prematurely, ones hopes or ones fears.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)
“A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Men commonly couple with their idea of marriage a slight degree at least of sensuality; but every lover, the world over, believes in its inconceivable purity.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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