Famous quotes containing the words independence and/or mountain:
“I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gay capital [Paris].”
—Thomas Jefferson (17431826)
“The mountain and the squirrel
Had a quarrel,
And the former called the latter Little Prig;”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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