Famous quotes containing the words patent and/or cases:
“The cigar-box which the European calls a lift needs but to be compared with our elevators to be appreciated. The lift stops to reflect between floors. That is all right in a hearse, but not in elevators. The American elevator acts like the mans patent purgeit works”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“There are some cases ... in which the sense of injury breedsnot the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, buta hatred of all injury.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
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