John Smith Phelps

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    Old men who never cheated, never doubted,
    Communicated monthly, sit and stare
    At the new suburb stretched beyond the run-way
    Where a young man lands hatless from the air.
    —Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984)

    Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
    —Alfred E. Smith (1873–1944)

    Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful—the formation of fixed habits of work.
    —Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)