Improvement Actions

Famous quotes containing the words improvement and/or actions:

“We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.”
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

“Can it be borne, this bodying-forth by wind
Of joy my actions turn on, like a thread
Carrying beads?”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)