Sidney Johnson Mcmechen

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    What have I thus betrayed my libertie?
    Can those blacke beames such burning markes engrave
    In my free side? or am I borne a slave,
    Whose necke becomes such yoke of tyranny?
    —Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)

    I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)