Famous quotes containing the words improve and/or tone:
“There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“It makes me hate accepting things that are probable when they are held up before me as infallibly true. I prefer these words which tone down and modify the hastiness of our propositions: Perhaps, In some sort, Some, They say, I think, and the like.”
—Michel de Montaigne (15331592)
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