Famous quotes containing the words local, hidden and/or variable:
“Civility, which is a disposition to accommodate and oblige others, is essentially the same in every country; but good breeding, as it is called, which is the manner of exerting that disposition, is different in almost every country, and merely local; and every man of sense imitates and conforms to that local good breeding of the place which he is at.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“Were I a king, I could command content;
Were I obscure, hidden should be my cares;”
—Edward De Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550–1604)
“There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady’s head-dress.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
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