Sir John Franklin

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    “And as the sun above the light doth bring,
    Though we behold it in the air below,
    So from th’ eternal Light the soul doth spring,
    Though in the body she her powers do show.”
    —Sir John Davies (1569–1626)

    “Conscription may have been good for the country, but it damn near killed the army.”
    —Richard, Sir Hull (b. 1907)

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

    “We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.”
    —Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)