Famous quotes containing the words bacon and/or county:
“Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
“It would astonish if not amuse, the older citizens of your County who twelve years ago knew me a stranger, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working on a flat boat—at ten dollars per month to learn that I have been put down here as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)