Sir John Spencer

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“What a treat to hear Thy Word
Where the bones of leading statesmen,
Have so often been interred.”
—Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984)

“‘Shall we fight or shall we fly?
Good Sir Richard, tell us now,
For to fight is but to die!”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

“Mrs. John Lyford is so much pleased with the state of
widowhood as to be going to put in for being a widow again; she
is to marry a Mr. Fendall.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)

“The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to “show what he was meant to become.””
—Anna Garlin Spencer (1851–1931)