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«After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.»
Author: Cato The Elder | Keywords: monument, The Monument
«He has the body-fat content of a 20-year-old sprinter, the bone structure of a public monument and the eyes... well, we know about the blue eyes (which happen to be colorblind).»
«Here was a monument, in fieldstone, to the art of family life.»
«(Common law) stands as a monument slowly raised, like a coral reef, from the minute accretions of past individuals, of whom each built upon the relics which his predecessors left, and in his turn left a foundation upon which his successors might work»
«I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.»
Author: Paul Harvey | Keywords: erected, monument
«Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.»
«A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them»
«Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.»
«(Man's) history is a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin»
Author: Washington Irving (Writer) | About: History | Keywords: monument
«Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief»

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