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  • My scrofulous French novel On grey paper with blunt type!

    - Robert Browning
      Dramatic Lyrics,'Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister'.

  • Your eight-page paperbehind which you huddle, Bawling through the megaphone of big type: 'This is I, the giant.'

    - Edgar Lee Masters
      Spoon River Anthology,'Editor  Whedon'.

  • The Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this, it requires the highest type of human naturea type nowhere at present existing.

    - Herbert Spencer
    'TheAmericans', collected in Essays (1891).

  • Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home!

    -William Wordsworth
      'To a Skylark', l.11^12 (published1827).

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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