1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal

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    “I loathe that I did love,
    In youth that I thought sweet;”
    —Thomas Vaux, 2d Baron Vaux Of Harrowden (1510–1566)

    “Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.”
    —Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965)

    “Are you there, Africa with the bulging chest and oblong thigh? Sulking Africa, wrought of iron, in the fire, Africa of the millions of royal slaves, deported Africa, drifting continent, are you there? Slowly you vanish, you withdraw into the past, into the tales of castaways, colonial museums, the works of scholars.”
    —Jean Genet (1910–1986)