William Smith Otis

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    For each age is a dream that is dying,
    Or one that is coming to birth.
    —Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy (1844–1881)

    There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
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    It’s not that I don’t want to be a beauty, that I don’t yearn to be dripping with glamor. It’s just that I can’t see how any woman can find time to do to herself all the things that must apparently be done to make herself beautiful and, having once done them, how anyone without the strength of mind of a foreign missionary can keep up such a regime.
    —Cornelia Otis Skinner (1901–1979)