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Famous quotes containing the word quick:

    Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.
    Max Beerbohm (1872–1956)

    Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
    Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

    I fell her finger light
    Laid pausefully upon life’s headlong train;—
    The foot less prompt to meet the morning dew,
    The heart less bounding at emotion new,
    And hope, once crush’d, less quick to spring again.
    Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)