John Seward Johnson II

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    I do not wish to see John ever again,—I mean him who is dead,—but that other, whom only he would have wished to see, or to be, of whom he was the imperfect representative. For we are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)