cheque quotes

This is the Night Mail crossing the border Bringing the cheque and the postal order.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  'Night Mail', pt.1, written to accompany a documentary by the Post Office Film Unit.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

-Pound, Ezra Loomis
  TheABC of Reading, ch.1.

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