Earliest Long Count

Famous quotes containing the words earliest, long and/or count:

    I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing—it being one of my earliest observations, the universal inclination of humankind is to be led by the ears, and I am sometimes apt to imagine that they are given to men as they are to pitchers, purposely that they may be carried about by them.
    Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)

    The long high tent of growing and making, wired-off
    Wood tables past which crowds shuffle, eyeing the scrubbed
    spaced
    Extrusions of earth....
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    Every country has its own constitution; ours is absolutism moderated by assassination.
    —Anonymous Russian. Quoted in Count Münster, Political Sketches of the State of Europe 1814-1867 (1868)