Governor Boswell

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    It is better to have the power of self-protection than to depend on any man, whether he be the Governor in his chair of State, or the hunted outlaw wandering through the night, hungry and cold and with murder in his heart.
    Lillie Devereux Blake (1835–1913)

    We had some port, and drank damnation to the play and eternal remorse to the author.
    —James Boswell (1740–1795)