Famous quotes containing the words greatest and/or eastern:
“We are in the greatest danger of being run over when we have just gotten out of the way of a carriage.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“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)
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