Famous quotes containing the words upper, arlington and/or historic:
“The stately Homes of England,
How beautiful they stand,
To prove the upper classes
Have still the upper hand.”
—Noël Coward (1899–1973)
“For through it all—above, beyond it all—
I know the far-sent message of the years,
I feel the coming glory of the Light.”
—Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)
“Never is a historic deed already completed when it is done but always only when it is handed down to posterity. What we call “history” by no means represents the sum total of all significant deeds.... World history ... only comprises that tiny lighted sector which chanced to be placed in the spotlight by poetic or scholarly depictions.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)
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