Ernest Vincent Wright Wotton

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    The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.
    —Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)

    ... though it is by no means requisite that the American women should emulate the men in the pursuit of the whale, the felling of the forest, or the shooting of wild turkeys, they might, with advantage, be taught in early youth to excel in the race, to hit a mark, to swim, and in short to use every exercise which could impart vigor to their frames and independence to their minds.
    —Frances Wright (1795–1852)

    You common people of the skies,
    What are you when the moon doth rise?
    —Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639)