Sir Thomas Elder

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    “What should I say,
    Since faith is dead,
    And truth away
    From you is fled?
    Should I be led
    With doubleness?”
    —Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

    “Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate,
    That few but such as cannot write, translate.”
    —John, Sir Denham (1615–1669)

    “The morning is flying on the wings of his age
    And a hundred storks perch on the sun’s right hand.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “Younger sisters are almost different beings from elder ones, but thank God it is quite and unaffectedly without repining or envy that I see my elder sister gad about and visit, etc.—when I rest at home.”
    —Frances Burney (1752–1840)