Famous quotes containing the words living, dub and/or volume:
“A man may travel fast enough and earn his living on the road.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Whom do we dub as Gentleman? The
Knave, the fool, the brute
If they but own full tithe of gold, and
Wear a courtly suit.”
—Eliza Cook (18181889)
“A tattered copy of Johnsons large Dictionary was a great delight to me, on account of the specimens of English versifications which I found in the Introduction. I learned them as if they were so many poems. I used to keep this old volume close to my pillow; and I amused myself when I awoke in the morning by reciting its jingling contrasts of iambic and trochaic and dactylic metre, and thinking what a charming occupation it must be to make up verses.”
—Lucy Larcom (18241893)
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