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«Though these Indians dwell among the English and see in what plenty a little industry enables them to live, yet they choose to continue in their stupid idleness and to suffer all the inconveniences of dirt, cold, and want rather than disturb their heads with care or defile their hands with labor.»
Author: William Byrd
«When the weather is mild, they stand leaning with both their arms upon the corn-field fence, and gravely consider whether they had best go and take a Small Heat at the Hough: but generally find reasons to put it off till another time.»
Author: William Byrd
«There is but one way of converting these poor infidels and reclaiming them from barbarity, and that is charitably to intermarry with them, according to the modern policy of the Most Christian King in Canada and Louisiana.»
Author: William Byrd
«My mind to me a kingdom is;Such perfect joy therein I find,As far exceeds all earthly blissThat God and Nature hath assigned.»
Author: William Byrd
«What happened was you had a lot of girls that were just getting discouraged about playing, ... To encourage enough girls to participate, they came up with the 80 percent rule.»
Author: William Byrd
«Care to dispend according to thy store,And in like sort be mindful of the poor.»
Author: William Byrd
«That's kind of different for me, ... Normally I get so pumped up I hit it 20 feet by or 20 feet short.»
Author: William Byrd
«I don't know why, ... It's kind of neat to watch.»
Author: William Byrd
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