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"An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia."
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"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea."
"If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over."
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"Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We have lost a size of land equivalent to the entire state of Rhode Island."
"And for myself, I think for the present He is calling me to another land; but how long shall be my abode, or what employment He has for me there, I know not, for I cannot think He is taking me there to live and lurk only."
"I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none."
"This land is your land, this land is my land, From California to the New York Island. From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me."
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"Buckwheat may be planted later than any similar crop, and often does well on old meadows or waste land that can be broken after the more exacting crops are planted."
"As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo."
Explore more quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay
"Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim."
"Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind."
"There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom."
"I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors."
"Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world."
"We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality."
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