Quotes with intervals

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• He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.

  ― Miguel de Cervantes
  Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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• I don't understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.

  ― Anton Chekhov
  Russian playwright and short story writer
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• Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

  ― Sir Thomas Browne
  British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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• Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.

  ― Oliver Goldsmith
  Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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• Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles - a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.

  ― Buffalo Bill
  American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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• I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
  

  ― Edgar Allan Poe
  American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• sovereignty
• protraction
• forty-five
• averaging
• beginning
• stations

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