Six Mile Bottom

Six Mile Bottom is a hamlet within the parish of Little Wilbraham, near Cambridge in England.

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Famous quotes containing the words mile and/or bottom:

    “Telephone poles were matchsticks, put there to be snapped off at a whim. Dogs trotting across the road were suddenly big trucks. Old ladies turned into moving—vans. Everything was too bright, but very funny and made for my delight. And about half a mile from my long liquid breakfast I turned carefully down a side street and parked, and sat beaming happily through the tannic fog for about an hour, remembering how witty we all had been, how handsome and talented ... [ellipsis in original]”
    —M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)

    “The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.”
    —Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)