Extended Character Set

Famous quotes containing the words extended, character and/or set:

    The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
    Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

    Pity the man who has a character to support—it is worse than a large family—he is silent poor indeed.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Thus all probable reasoning is nothing but a species of sensation. ‘Tis not solely in poetry and music, we must follow our taste and sentiment, but likewise in philosophy, When I am convinc’d of any principle, ‘tis only an idea which strikes more strongly upon me. When I give the preference to one set of arguments above another, I do nothing but decide from my feeling concerning the superiority of their influence.
    David Hume (1711–1776)