A government for protecting business and 60 bread only is but a carcase, and soon falls by its own corruption to decay. A. B. Alcott.
A government may not waver; once it has chosen its course, it must, without looking to right or left, thenceforth go forward. Bismarck.
A grands frais—At great expense. Fr.
A grave and a majestic exterior is the palace of the soul. Chinese Pr.
A great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity. George Eliot.
A great deal may and must be done which we 65 dare not acknowledge in words. Goethe.
A great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction. Heine.
A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation. Emerson.
A great man is he who can call together the most select company when it pleases him. Landor.
A great man is one who affects the mind of his generation. Disraeli.