Standard Set

Famous quotes containing the words standard and/or set:

“Where shall we look for standard English but to the words of a standard man?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden,—what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)