Riley Skinner

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    the ache here in the throat,
    To know that I so ill deserve the place
    Her arms make for me;
    —James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916)

    It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.
    —Cornelia Otis Skinner (1901–1979)