"The more one was lost in unfamiliar quarters of distant cities, the more one understood the other cities he had crossed to arrive there."
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"I get Head and Tail like a quarter... in that order."
"All about a dollar like four quarters."
"It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes; to sift them and assign the portion of truth to its proper place."
"Where I live you're not supposed to shoot a firearm within a quarter mile of a dwelling."
"True ideas lead us into useful verbal and conceptual quarters as well as directly up to useful sensible termini. They lead to consistency, stability and flowing human intercourse."
"Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000."
"When we see that the whole sum of our salvation, and every single part of it, are comprehended in Christ, we must beware of deriving even the minutest portion of it from any other quarter."