composed quotes

Cruel, but composed and bland, Dumb, inscrutable and grand, SoTiberius might have sat, Had Tiberius been a cat.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Poems: Second Series,'Poor Matthias', l.40^3.

I have composed too much.

-ï
Letter to Sibelius.

Could Hamlet have been written bya committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the NewTestament have been composed as a conference report?

-Griswold, Alfred Whitney
  Baccalaureate address, 9  Jun.

Every proposition which we can understand must be composed wholly of constituents with which we are acquainted.

-Russell, Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl
  A Free Man'sWorship,'Knowledge byAcquaintance and Knowledge by Description'.

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