Sound Deadening

Famous quotes containing the words sound and/or deadening:

“The Young Man’s Best Companion, The Farrier’s Sure Guide, The Veterinary Surgeon, Paradise Lost, The Pilgrim’s Progress, Robinson Crusoe, Ash’s Dictionary, and Walkingame’s Arithmetic, constituted his library; and though a limited series, it was one from which he had acquired more sound information by diligent perusal than many a man of opportunities had done from a furlong of laden shelves.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

“Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of habit.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)