Famous quotes containing the words sugar, island and/or township:
“Naughty Paughty Jack-a-Dandy,
Stole a Piece of Sugar Candy
From the Grocers Shoppy-Shop,
And away did hoppy-hop.”
—Henry Carey (1693?1743)
“If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from others lands, but a continent that joins to them.”
—Francis Bacon (15611626)
“A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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