Sir Walter Scott

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    Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel,
    And death in ambush lay in every pill.
    Samuel, Sir Garth (1661–1719)

    And they be these: the wood, the weed, the wag.
    The wood is that which makes the gallow tree;
    The weed is that which strings the hangman’s bag;
    —Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?–1618)

    Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children’s party taken over by the elders.
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)