Famous quotes containing the words pleasant, valley and/or lake:
“Really, Barbara, you go on as if religion were a pleasant subject. Do have some sense of propriety.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“How old the world is! I walk between two eternities.... What is my fleeting existence in comparison with that decaying rock, that valley digging its channel ever deeper, that forest that is tottering and those great masses above my head about to fall? I see the marble of tombs crumbling into dust; and yet I don’t want to die!”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)
“Lenin on a bench beside a lake disturbed
The swans. He was not the man for swans.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
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