Famous quotes containing the words longer and/or chain:
“Our envy always lasts longer than the good fortune of those we envy.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways as there are floating fancies or fashions, the whole chain and continuity of the commonwealth would be broken. No one generation could link with the other. Men would become little better than the flies of a summer.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
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