John Shown

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    Soldier: Hey colonel, I got me a prisoner. What should I do with him?
    Col. John Marlowe: Spank him.
    John Lee Mahin (1902–1984)

    Nothing has shown more fully the prodigious ignorance of human ideas and their littleness, than the discovery of [Sir William] Herschell, that what used to be called the Milky Way is a portion of perhaps an infinite multitude of worlds!
    Horace Walpole (1717–1797)