John A Macdonald/confederation of Canada 1864-1867

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    All beauty, resonance, integrity,
    Exist by deprivation or logic
    Of strange position.
    John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
    —Bible: New Testament St. John the Divine, in Revelation, 21:4.

    I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
    Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)