John Lewis Department

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    Take heed of enemies reconciled, and of meat twice boiled.
    —Collected in John Ray, English Proverbs. English proverb (1670)

    They who in folly or mere greed
    Enslaved religion, markets, laws,
    Borrow our language now and bid
    Us to speak up in freedom’s cause.
    —Cecil Day Lewis (1904–1972)

    All his works might well enough be embraced under the title of one of them, a good specimen brick, “On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History.” Of this department he is the Chief Professor in the World’s University, and even leaves Plutarch behind.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)