Ben Hill Griffin

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    “And showed the names whom love of God had blessed,
    And, lo! Ben Adhem’s name led all the rest!”
    —Leigh Hunt (1784–1859)

    “Who knows but this hill may one day be a Helvellyn, or even a Parnassus, and the Muses haunt here, and other Homers frequent the neighboring plains?... It was a place where gods might wander, so solemn and solitary, and removed from all contagion with the plain.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Borrow a child and get on welfare.
    Borrow a child and stay in the house all day with the child,
    or go to the public park with the child, and take the child
    to the welfare office and cry and say your man left you and
    be humble and wear your dress and your smile, and don’t talk
    back ...”
    —Susan Griffin (b. 1943)