John Seward Johnson II

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    ““Our earth is degenerate in these latter days. Bribery and corruption are common. Children no longer obey their parents. . . . The end of the world is evidently approaching.” Sound familiar? It is, in fact, the lament of a scribe in one of the earliest inscriptions to be unearthed in Mesopotamia, where Western civilization was born.”
    —C. John Sommerville (20th century)

    “The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)