Watts/people

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“In the midst of life we are in debt.”
—Ethel Watts Mumford (1878–1940)

“After the earthquake, which had destroyed three-quarters of Lisbon, the country’s wise men had found no more efficacious means of preventing total ruin than to give the people a fine auto-da-fé.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)