Famous quotes containing the words player, character and/or race:
“The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (18091845)
“A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza;read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“We are a race of tit-men, and soar but little higher in our intellectual flights than the columns of the daily paper.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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