Sidney Johnson Mcmechen

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    Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess?
    Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?
    —Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)

    Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)