Town/by Country

Famous quotes containing the words town and/or country:

“This was the most completely maritime town that we were ever in. It was merely a good harbor, surrounded by land, dry if not firm,—an inhabited beach, whereon fishermen cured and stored their fish, without any back country.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“I nauseate walking; ‘tis a country diversion; I loathe the country.”
—William Congreve (1670–1729)