Lieutenant Colonel Paine

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“The Colonel went out sailing,
He spoke with Turk and Jew
With Christian and with Infidel
For all tongues he knew.
“O what’s a wifeless man?” said he
And he came sailing home.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“What we obtain too cheap we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.”
—Thomas Paine (1737–1809)