Famous quotes containing the words golden and/or shield:
“I had a little nut-tree, nothing would it bear
But a golden nutmeg and a silver pear;”
—Mother Goose (fl. 17th18th century. I had a little nut-tree, nothing would it bear (l. 12)
“The lichen on the rocks is a rude and simple shield which beginning and imperfect Nature suspended there. Still hangs her wrinkled trophy.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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