Famous quotes containing the words hard and/or ten:
“It is hard to love those we do not truly esteem; but it is no less so to love those we esteem a great deal more than ourselves.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“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)