Flourishing/conclusion

Famous quotes containing the words flourishing and/or conclusion:

    “It was a flourishing tropic he required
    For his refreshment, an abundant zone,
    Prickly and obdurate, dense, harmonious,
    Yet with a harmony not rarefied
    Nor fined for the inhibited instruments
    Of over-civil stops.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the work of a President is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and by tourists into town.”
    —William Howard Taft (1857–1930)