Famous quotes containing the words prefer and/or green:
“Men look on knowledge which they learnor might learnfrom others as they do on the most beautiful structures which are not their own: in outward objects, they would rather behold their own hogsty than their neighbors palace; and in mental ones, would prefer one grain of knowledge gained by their own observation to all the wisdom of a thousand Solomons.”
—Sarah Fielding (17101768)
“by Spoon Rivergathering many a shell,
And many a flower and medicinal weed
Shouting to the wooded hills, singing to the green valleys.
At ninety-six I had lived enough, that is all,
And passed to a sweet repose.”
—Edgar Lee Masters (18691950)
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