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Famous quotes containing the word bears:

    “How frugal is the Chariot
    That bears the Human soul.”
    —Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

    “It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace ...”
    —M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)