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Famous quotes containing the words song and/or number:

“I made my song a coat
Covered with embroideries
Out of old mythologies”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“[The] elderly and timid single gentleman in Paris ... never drove down the Champs Elysees without expecting an accident, and commonly witnessing one; or found himself in the neighborhood of an official without calculating the chances of a bomb. So long as the rates of progress held good, these bombs would double in force and number every ten years.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)