"Three-fourths" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... disposition of the London world which left the ranks of the little Society to be three-fourths recruited among persons, many living at a distance, whom the poet did not know, became also in its way a satisfaction. It was with him a matter of course, though never of indifference, that his closer friends of both sexes were among its members; it ...
— Life and Letters of Robert Browning • Mrs. Sutherland Orr
... then "the human race will have achieved improvements of which we can now scarcely form an idea." Similarly Godwin, in his fancy picture of the future happiness of mankind, notices the difficulty and shirks it. "Three-fourths of the habitable globe are now uncultivated. The parts already cultivated are capable of immeasurable improvement. Myriads of centuries of still increasing population may pass away and the earth be still found sufficient for the ...
— The Idea of Progress - An Inquiry Into Its Origin And Growth • J. B. Bury
... compiled, shows that the criminal feels only too keenly that it is society that drives him to crime. A Milanese thief said to Lombroso: "I do not rob, I merely take from the rich their superfluities; besides, do not advocates and merchants rob?" A murderer wrote: "Knowing that three-fourths of the social virtues are cowardly vices, I thought an open assault on a rich man would be less ignoble than the cautious combination of fraud." Another wrote: "I am imprisoned for stealing a half dozen eggs. ...
— Anarchism and Other Essays • Emma Goldman
... neither bread nor wine to be found in three-fourths of the world. Observe that the precepts of the Koran can be ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
... that of the 12,000,000,000 pounds of sugar produced in the world, about three-fourths comes from the sugar cane, and the other fourth comes mainly from the sugar beet. Of the total quantity, only about one seventieth is produced in the United States, and that is mainly cane sugar from Louisiana. ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 312, December 24, 1881 • Various
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