Famous quotes containing the words reduced, high and/or school:
“The Gettysburg speech is at once the shortest and the most famous oration in American history. Put beside it, all the whoopings of the Websters, Sumners and Everetts seem gaudy and silly. It is eloquence brought to a pellucid and almost gem-like perfectionthe highest emotion reduced to a few poetical phrases.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“That is very high praise, which is given you by faithful witness.”
—Plato (c. 427347 B.C.)
“School days, school days; dear old golden rule days.
Readin and ritin and rithmetic; taught to the tune of a hickry stick.”
—Will D. Cobb (18761930)
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