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Famous quotes containing the word numerous:

    The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.
    Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    I was not long since in a company where I wot not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true account, composed of a hundred and odd several ingredients; whereat we laughed very heartily, and made ourselves good sport; for what rock so hard were able to resist the shock or withstand the force of so thick and numerous a battery?
    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    When receiving an order, many servants repeat their “yes” numerous times, especially the lazy ones.
    Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)