Disabled American Veteran

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    “But with some small portion of real genius and a warm imagination, an author surely may be permitted a little to expand his wings and to wander in the aerial fields of fancy, provided ... that he soar not to such dangerous heights, from whence unplumed he may fall to the ground disgraced, if not disabled from ever rising anymore.”
    —Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)

    “The American has dwindled into an Odd Fellow—one who may be known by the development of his organ of gregariousness.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage,
    Till pitying Nature signs the last release,
    And bids afflicted worth retire to peace.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)