Sir John Franklin

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    What should we know,
    For better or worse,
    Of the Long Ago,
    Were it not for Verse:
    —Oliver St. John Gogarty (1878–1957)

    I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
    —Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)