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Out-doors at Idlewild: Or, The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson

Book by Nathaniel Parker Willis · 4 quotes · Beautiful, Poor, Rich

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“Nature's noblemen are everywhere,--in town and out of town, gloved and rough-handed, rich and poor. Prejudice against a lord, because he is a lord, is losing the chance of finding a good fellow, as much as prejudice against a ploughman because he is a ploughman.”

“Spring is a beautiful piece of work; and not to be in the country to see it done is the not realizing what glorious masters we are, and how cheerfully, minutely, and unflaggingly the fair fingers of the season broider the world for us.”