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Famous quotes containing the word circles:

    And why do you cry, my dear, why do you cry?
    It is all in the whirling circles of time.
    If millions are born millions must die,
    Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)

    The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me ...
    Ida M. Tarbell (1857–1944)

    There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.
    Katharine Whitehorn (b. 1926)