Dozen Quotes - Page 6
A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation.
Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.155, BookCaps Study Guides
If you can express yourself so as to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen.
Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.212
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Cape Cod (Annotated Edition)”, p.171, Jazzybee Verlag
George Herbert (1862). “The Works of George Herbert: In Prose and Verse”
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.882, e-artnow
I liked the thought that the book I was now holding had been held by dozens of others.
Doris Kearns Goodwin (2009). “Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir”, p.93, Simon and Schuster
Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors”, p.30, Ballantine Books
Song: A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall, Album: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, 1963