Walter Montagu Douglas Scott

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    “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)

    “I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people ... I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.”
    —Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)

    “If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.”
    —Kirk Douglas (b. 1916)

    “I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.”
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)