Famous quotes containing the words descent and/or living:
“There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare
That you hardly at first see the strength that is there;
A frame so robust, with a nature so sweet,
So earnest, so graceful, so lithe and so fleet,
Is worth a descent from Olympus to meet;”
—James Russell Lowell (18191891)
“The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.”
—Willa Cather (18731947)
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