Famous quotes containing the words special and/or offered:
“Personal prudence, even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations, surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an excessive love of glory, impassioning a less burning impulse, the honest sense of duty, is the first.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“Here also was made the novelty Chestnut Bell which enjoyed unusual popularity during the gay nineties when every dandy jauntily wore one of the tiny bells on the lapel of his coat, and rang it whenever a story-teller offered a chestnut.”
—Administration for the State of Con, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
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