"Iron mould" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... youth out of age is a series of paradoxes. The Russian of the present day is the Russian of past ages. He exists by rule—the rule of despotism—which is as old as the Medes and Persians; and which forces him into an iron mould that shapes his appearance, his mind, and his actions to one pattern, from one generation to another Hence every thing that lives and breathes in Russia being antique, there is no appreciable antiquity. ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. • Various |
