Famous quotes containing the words story and/or read:
“The oft-repeated Roman story is written in still legible characters in every quarter of the Old World, and but today, perchance, a new coin is dug up whose inscription repeats and confirms their fame. Some “Judæa Capta,” with a woman mourning under a palm tree, with silent argument and demonstration confirms the pages of history.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.”
—Margaret Fuller (1810–1850)