Sir John Spencer

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    “Thus while I sit and sigh the day
    With all his borrow’d lights away,
    Till night’s black wings do overtake me,
    Thinking on thee, thy beauties then,
    As sudden lights do sleepy men,
    So they by their bright rays awake me.”
    —Sir John Suckling (1609–1642)

    “How soon I may ride the whole world about;
    And at the third question thou must not shrink,
    But tell me here truly what I do think.””
    —Unknown. King John and the Abbot of Canterbury (l. 30–32)

    “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)