Wirt County

Famous quotes containing the words wirt and/or county:

“I’m so sick of Nancy Drew I could vomit.”
—Mildred Augustus Wirt Benson (b. c. 1906)

“It would astonish if not amuse, the older citizens of your County who twelve years ago knew me a stranger, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working on a flat boat—at ten dollars per month to learn that I have been put down here as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)