Kate Chase
Katherine Jane ("Kate") Chase Sprague (August 13, 1840 – July 31, 1899) was the daughter of Ohio politician Salmon P. Chase, Treasury Secretary during President Abraham Lincoln's first administration and later Chief Justice of the United States. She was a Washington society hostess during the American Civil War, a strong supporter of her widowed father's presidential ambitions that would have made her First Lady, and wife of Rhode Island Governor William Sprague.
Read more about Kate Chase: Early Life, Life in Washington, Marriage and Divorce, Political Action, Later Years
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“Truly, My Satan, thou art but a Dunce,
And dost not know the Garment from the Man.
Every Harlot was a Virgin once,
Nor can’st thou ever change Kate into Nan.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“Groot: Now wait a minute, Quo. You really ain’t gonna take a man’s only set of teeth, are ya?
Quo: Uh huh.
Groot: Yeah, but I gotta use ‘em for eatin’.
Quo: Come grub you get ‘em.
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Quo: My name now Two-Jaw Quo.”
—Borden Chase [Frank Fowler] (1900–1971)