Sir William Jones

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    Three little maids from school are we,
    Pert as a school-girl well can be,
    Filled to the brim with girlish glee, Three little maids from school!
    Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses,
    Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces.
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    Men’s hearts are cold. They are indifferent. Not all the coal that is dug warms the world. It remains indifferent to the lives of those who risk their life and health down in the blackness of the earth; who crawl through dark, choking crevices with only a bit of lamp on their caps to light their silent way; whose backs are bent with toil, whose very bones ache, whose happiness is sleep, and whose peace is death.
    —Mother Jones (1830–1930)