Famous quotes containing the words county and/or portion:
“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)
“That best portion of a good man’s life;
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)