James Gordon Brown

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    How sick one gets of being “good,” how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.
    —Alice James (1848–1892)

    There’s nought, no doubt, so much the spirit calms
    As rum and true religion.
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    I am as content to die for God’s eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.
    —John Brown (1800–1859)