Aubrey Smith

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    “In ancient times—’twas no great loss—
    They hung the thief upon the cross:
    But now, alas!—I say’t with grief—
    They hang the cross upon the thief.”
    —Anonymous. “On a Nomination to the Legion of Honour,” from Aubrey Stewart’s English Epigrams and Epitaphs (1897)

    “A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.”
    —Alexander Smith (1830–1867)