Famous quotes containing the words standard and/or pitch:
“Where shall we look for standard English but to the words of a standard man?”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“People do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling around, building up and becoming entangled in its own work, like our silkworms, and is suffocated in it: a mouse in a pitch barrel.”
—Michel de Montaigne (15331592)
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