Famous quotes containing the words heirs and/or male:
“Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives,
Live registered upon our brazen tombs,
And then grace us in the disgrace of death;
When spite of cormorant devouring Time,
Th endeavor of this present breath may buy
That honor which shall bate his scythes keen edge,
And make us heirs of all eternity.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“One of the most interesting and affecting things [on a difficult return march from a raid into Virginia] is the train of contrabands, old and young, male and femaleone hundred to two hundredtoiling uncomplainingly along after and with the army.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (18221893)
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