Famous quotes containing the words bear and/or township:
“Like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)
“The most interesting thing which I heard of, in this township of Hull, was an unfailing spring, whose locality was pointed out to me on the side of a distant hill, as I was panting along the shore, though I did not visit it. Perhaps, if I should go through Rome, it would be some spring on the Capitoline Hill I should remember the longest.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)