Duc Du Maine

Famous quotes containing the words duc and/or maine:

    Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
    François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

    Midway the lake we took on board two manly-looking middle-aged men.... I talked with one of them, telling him that I had come all this distance partly to see where the white pine, the Eastern stuff of which our houses are built, grew, but that on this and a previous excursion into another part of Maine I had found it a scarce tree; and I asked him where I must look for it. With a smile, he answered that he could hardly tell me.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)