Import Duty

Famous quotes containing the words import and/or duty:

“Every tree sends its fibres forth in search of the Wild. The cities import it at any price. Men plow and sail for it. From the forest and wilderness come the tonics and barks which brace mankind.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)