General John Pope

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    “A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.”
    —Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964)

    “And that enquiring man John Synge comes next,
    That dying chose the living world for text
    And never could have rested in the tomb
    But that, long travelling, he had come
    Towards nightfall upon certain set apart
    In a most desolate stony place....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “From Nature’s chain whatever link you strike,
    Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)