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  • A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.

    -Anonymous
      Sign on desk of  American Express president Louis Gerstner. Quoted in the NewYork Times, 26  Jun.

  • She that with poetry is won Is but a desk to write upon.

    - Samuel Butler
      Hudibras, pt.2, canto1, l.591^2.

  • Avotary of the deska notched and cropt scrivenerone that sucks his substance, as certain sick people are said to do, through a quill.

    - Charles Lamb
      Essays of Elia,'Oxford in the Vacation'.

  • I have met them at close of day Coming with vivid faces From counter or desk among grey Eighteenth-century houses.

    -W(illiam) B(utler) Yeats
      'Easter,1916', l.1^4. Collected in Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921).

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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