Famous quotes containing the words gilbert, lake and/or state:
“Of course you will pooh-pooh whatevers fresh and new, and declare
its crude and mean;”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18361911)
“Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.”
—Oscar Wilde (18541900)
“The real stumbling-block of totalitarian rĂ©gimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is mens inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.”
—Simone Weil (19091943)
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