Quotes with excrescences

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• At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole.

  John Donne
  English poet (1572 - 1631)
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• Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

  E. M. Forster
  English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• excrescences
• conversation
• incorporated
• sustentation
• themselves
• fluxions

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