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«I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.»
«Believe me, this country [Florida] has been greatly overrated. One acre of our fine Tennessee land is worth a thousand here.»
«An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.»
Author: William Dean Howells | About: Commitment | Keywords: Acre, acres
«Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.»
Author: Samuel Beckett (Writer) | Keywords: Acre, acres, worms
«An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia»
«And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armourbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plow.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Acre, acres, Jonathan, plow
«Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet) | Keywords: acres, Air In, paternal
«It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.»
Author: Thomas Paine (Writer) | About: Defeat, Enemies | Keywords: acres, defending
«I first saw the site for Disneyland back in 1953, In those days it was all flat land - no rivers, no mountains, no castles or rocket ships - just orange groves, and a few acres of walnut trees.»
«Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.»