Quotes with quietness

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• A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.

  John Selden
  British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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• Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur ''Thou still unravished bride of quietness,'' then I am instantly aware that I am in the presence of the literary.

  Terry Eagleton
  British literary theorist and critic (1943 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• systematically
• transforms
• unravished
• instantly
• deviates
• everyday

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