Constable John Stevens

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    “I did not know that thou wert dead before;
    I did not feel the grief I did sustain;
    The greater stroke astonisheth the more;
    Astonishment takes from us sense of pain.
    I stood amazed when other’s tears begun,
    And now begin to weep when they have done.”
    —Henry Constable (1562–1613)

    “There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment—and nothing more corrupting.”
    —A.J.P. (Alan John Percivale)

    “Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)