Quotes with motley

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• Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.

  John L. Motley
   
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• Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.

  John L. Motley
   
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• It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.

  Learned Hand
   
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• We have a wretched motley crew, in the fleet; the marines the refuse of every regiment, and the seamen, few of them, ever wet with salt water.

  Letter to General Gates (21 September 1776), in Battle of Valcour on Lake Champlain, October 11th, 1776 by Peter Sailly Palmer(1876) p. 5

  Benedict Arnold
  American military officer (1741 - 1801)
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• And I did laugh sans intermission an hour by his dial. O noble fool, a worthy fool - motley's the only wear.

  William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• intermission
• performance
• dispense
• choosing
• wretched
• regiment

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