Thomas Davis

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“as she fleeth afore
Fainting I follow. I leave off therefore
Since in a net I seek to hold the wind.”
—Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

“Before the birth of the New Woman the country was not an intellectual desert, as she is apt to suppose. There were teachers of the highest grade, and libraries, and countless circles in our towns and villages of scholarly, leisurely folk, who loved books, and music, and Nature, and lived much apart with them. The mad craze for money, which clutches at our souls to-day as la grippe does at our bodies, was hardly known then.”
—Rebecca Harding Davis (1831–1910)