Famous quotes containing the words middle and/or peasants:
“For rhetoric, he could not ope
His mouth, but out there flew a trope;
And when he happen’d to break off
I’ th’ middle of his speech, or cough,
H’ had hard words ready to show why,
And tell what rules he did it by;”
—Samuel Butler (1612–1680)
“But the peasants—how do the peasants die?”
—Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910)