Famous quotes containing the words state and/or line:
“No mans nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.”
—Plato (c. 427347 B.C.)
“It may be the more
That no line of her writing have I,
Nor a thread of her hair,
No mark of her late time as dame in her dwelling, whereby
I may picture her there.”
—Thomas Hardy (18401928)
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