Wise County is the name of two counties in the United States:
- Wise County, Texas
- Wise County, Virginia
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“nat every wight he sholde go selle
Al that he hadde and yive it to the poore,
And in swich wise folwe him and his fore:
He spak to hem that wolde live parfitly
And lordinges, by youre leve, that am nat I.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?1400)
“Anti-Nebraska, Know-Nothings, and general disgust with the powers that be, have carried this county [Hamilton County, Ohio] by between seven and eight thousand majority! How people do hate Catholics, and what a happiness it was to show it in what seemed a lawful and patriotic manner.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (18221893)
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