Famous quotes containing the words spade and/or house:
“As for farming, I am convinced that my genius dates from an older era than the agricultural. I would at least strike my spade into the earth with such careless freedom but accuracy as the woodpecker his bill into a tree.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.”
—Abraham Lincoln (18091865)
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