Quotes of Rake - somelinesforyou

“ The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck. ”

- Theodore Roosevelt

“ Die for adultery! No: The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly does lecher in my sight. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes. ”

- Thomas B. Macaulay

“ Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves. ”

- Marcelene Cox

“ Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer. ”

- Daniel Defoe
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