Famous quotes containing the words held and/or private:
“It is my birthday,
I had thought t have held it poor; but since my lord
Is Antony again, I will be Cleopatra.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“It was evident that, both on account of the feudal system and the aristocratic government, a private man was not worth so much in Canada as in the United States; and, if your wealth in any measure consists in manliness, in originality and independence, you had better stay here. How could a peaceable, freethinking man live neighbor to the Forty-ninth Regiment? A New-Englander would naturally be a bad citizen, probably a rebel, there,certainly if he were already a rebel at home.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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