Famous quotes containing the words empire, state and/or youth:
“There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (18991986)
“The principal saloon was the Howlin Wilderness, an immense log cabin with a log fire always burning in the huge fireplace, where so many fights broke out that the common saying was, We will have a man for breakfast tomorrow.”
—For the State of California, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“If youth but knew; if age but could.
Wives in their husbands absences grow subtler,
And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
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