Famous quotes containing the words rich and/or county:
“He only is rich who owns the day.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“It would astonish if not amuse, the older citizens of your County who twelve years ago knew me a stranger, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working on a flat boat—at ten dollars per month to learn that I have been put down here as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)