Daniel Pratt (eccentric)
“General” Daniel Pratt, Jr. (born 11 April 1809 in Prattville, Chelsea, Massachusetts; died 21 June 1887 in Boston) was an American itinerant speaker, author, performance-artist, eccentric, and poet.
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Famous quotes containing the words daniel and/or pratt:
“A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel!
O wise young judge, how I do honor thee!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“So motionless, she seemed stone dead—just seemed:
She was too old for death, too old for life,
For as if jealous of all living forms
She had lain there before bivalves began
To catacomb their shells on western mountains.”
—Edwin John Pratt (1882–1964)