quotes about Nightfall
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To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.
-- Alexis Carrel -
After nightfall, I wouldn't leave a burning building without an escort.
-- Harriet Van HorneSource : 1969 On muggings in Manhattan. In the Washington Post, 26 Feb.
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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
-- Henry MayhewSource : Henry Mayhew (2012). “The London Underworld in the Victorian Period: Authentic First-Person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes”, p.57, Courier Corporation
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Stilled legendary depth: It was as deep as England. It held Pike too immense to stir, so immense and old That past nightfall I dared not cast.
-- Ted Hughes -