Famous quotes containing the words native, character and/or set:
“The Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we trod on native ground, and were autochthones of the soil.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“When a mans feeling and character are injured, he ought to seek a speedy redress.... My character you have injured, and further you have insulted me in the presence of a court and large audience. I therefore call upon you as a gentleman to give me satisfaction for the same.”
—Andrew Jackson (17671845)
“The dreariest spot in all the land
To Death they set apart;
With scanty grace from Natures hand,
And none from that of Art.”
—John Greenleaf Whittier (18071892)
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