Famous quotes containing the words average and/or cost:
“You preferred it to the usual thing:
One dull man, dulling and uxorious,
One average mindwith one thought less, each year.”
—Ezra Pound (18851972)
“Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the dragon, in their efforts to win the apples of the Hesperides, or the fleece of gold. Fallen in their efforts to overcome the old, half sordid savagery of the lower stages of creation, and win the next stage.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
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