Famous quotes containing the words points, lance and/or franklin:
“He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and extract a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. Most begin to veer and tack as soon as the wind changes from aft, and as within the tropics it does not blow from all points of the compass, there are some harbors which they can never reach.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Well, if I were going to haunt anybody, this would certainly be the house I’d do it in.”
—Robb White, and William Castle. Lance Schroeder (Richard Long)
“It was one of the rules which above all others made Doctr. Franklin the most amiable man in society, “never to contradict any body.””
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
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