“My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock. ”
“The muffled tongue of Big Ben tolled nine by the clock as the cortege left the palace, but on history's clock it was sunset, and the sun of the old world was setting in a dying blaze of splendor never to be seen again.”
Source: The Guns of August
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“The hours of folly are measur'd by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.”
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Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 210.