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    “Just at the stroke when my veins start and spread,
    Set on my soul an everlasting head.
    Then am I ready, like a palmer fit,
    To tread those blest paths which before I writ.”
    —Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?–1618)

    “Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.”
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

    “Each class of society has its own requirements; but it may be said that every class teaches the one immediately below it; and if the highest class be ignorant, uneducated, loving display, luxuriousness, and idle, the same spirit will prevail in humbler life.”
    —First published in Girls’ Home Companion (1895)