Quotes of Vapour - somelinesforyou

“ O gold! I still prefer thee unto paper which makes bank credit like a bank of vapour. ”

- Calvin Coolidge

“ Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water, suffices to kill him. But if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this. ”

- Blaise Pascal

“ Once upon a perfect night, unclouded and still, there came the face of a pale and beautiful lady. The tresses of her hair reached out to make the constellations, and the dewy vapours of her gown fell soft upon the land. ”

- Kit Williams
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