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Famous quotes containing the words long and/or word:

    This spirit it was which so early carried the French to the Great Lakes and the Mississippi on the north, and the Spaniard to the same river on the south. It was long before our frontiers reached their settlements in the West, and a voyageur or coureur de bois is still our conductor there.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Here lies our Sovereign Lord, the King
    Whose word no man relies on:
    He never said a foolish thing
    Nor ever did a wise one.
    John Wilmot, 2nd Earl Of Rochester (1647–1680)