Sir John Spencer

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    “Columbus’s doom-burdened caravels
    Slant to the shore, and all their seamen land.”
    —Sir John Collings Squire (1884–1958)

    “Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate,
    That few but such as cannot write, translate.”
    —John, Sir Denham (1615–1669)

    “Approval of what is approved of
    Is as false as a well-kept vow.”
    —Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984)

    “Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.”
    —Herbert Spencer (1820–1903)