Famous quotes containing the words small, bore and/or rifle:
“The only government that I recognizeand it matters not how few are at the head of it, or how small its armyis that power that establishes justice in the land, never that which establishes injustice.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“So we may never
Again feel fully confident of the stratagem that bore us
And lived on a certain time after that. And it went away
Little by little, as most things do. To profit
By this mainstream is todays chore and adventure.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“Truth is his inspirer, and earnestness the polisher of his sentences. He could afford to lose his Sharps rifles, while he retained his faculty of speech,a Sharps rifle of infinitely surer and longer range.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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