Famous quotes containing the words mercury, grand, marquis and/or generation:
“The mercury sank in the mouth of the dying day.
What instruments we have agree
The day of his death was a dark cold day.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)
“Well! If the Bard was weather-wise, who made
The grand old ballad of Sir Patrick Spence,”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
“Obscurity is the realm of error.”
—Luc, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747)
“One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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