Famous quotes containing the words perry, oaks and/or farm:
“As Ah Ling would say, Even though the eyes may see, the mind will not believe.”
—Joseph ODonnell, and Clifford Sanforth. Arthur Perry (Bela Lugosi)
“He that depends
Upon your favors swims with fins of lead,
And hews down oaks with rushes.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“We are often struck by the force and precision of style to which hard-working men, unpracticed in writing, easily attain when required to make the effort. As if plainness and vigor and sincerity, the ornaments of style, were better learned on the farm and in the workshop than in the schools. The sentences written by such rude hands are nervous and tough, like hardened thongs, the sinews of the deer, or the roots of the pine.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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