Famous quotes containing the words mercury, living and/or presence:
“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)
“Barely tolerated, living on the margin
In our technological society, we were always having to be rescued
On the brink of destruction....”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.”
—Jean Rostand (1894–1977)
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