Quotes with promontory

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• Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

  Victor Hugo
  French writer (1802 - 1885)
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• See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.

  Socrates
  Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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• Stately Pines, But few more years around the promontory Your chant will meet the thunders of the sea.

  Bayard Taylor
  American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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• The middle-aged stranger whom I met by chance upon the lower rocks at Mary's Neck, that salt-washed promontory of the New England coast, was at first taciturn but became voluble when a little conversation developed the fact that we were both from the Midland country.

  Booth Tarkington
  American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• conversation
• salt-washed
• developed
• thunders
• stranger
• taciturn

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