Isaac Duncan Macdougall

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    “Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.”
    —Bible: Hebrew Jacob, in Genesis, 27:11.

    To his mother Rebekah, explaining how the blind Isaac might discover the ploy of his pretending to be Esau. “Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.” (25:27)

    “Virtuous people are simply those who have ... not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.”
    —Isadora Duncan (1878–1927)

    “Veda Pierce: It’s all right, Miriam, she’s my mother.
    Miriam: No kiddin’. I didn’t know you had a mother.
    Veda: Everybody has a mother.”
    —Ranald MacDougall (1915–1973)