Famous quotes containing the words bear, lake and/or county:
“We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)
“This is my lake country.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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)