Famous quotes containing the words lily and/or mortar:
“I just can’t conceive of a mentality that says, “I don’t file.””
—Anonymous, U.S. secretary. As quoted in Ms. magazine, p. 46, by Lily Tomlin (January 1974)
“For the first time I’m content to see
What poor mortar and bricks
I have to build with, knowing that I can
Never in seventy years be more a man
Than now a sack of meal upon two sticks.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
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