Famous quotes containing the words hero and/or island:
“Like to the tree of Tantalus she fled,
And seeming lavish, savde her maydenhead.
Nere king more sought to keepe his diademe;
Than Hero this inestimable gemme.”
—Christopher Marlowe (15641593)
“Know that, on the right hand of the Indies, there is an island called California, very near to the Terrestrial Paradise, which was peopled with black women.... Their arms were all of gold.”
—For the State of California, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
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