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I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education. I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens.
Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.
Alvin Adams, Businessman (1804) |
Jerome Cavanagh, Politician (1928) |
Abby Elliott, Actress (1987) |
Geronimo, Statesman (1829) |
Cobi Jones, Athlete (1970) |
Stan Laurel, Actor (1890) |
Henri Lefebvre, Sociologist (1901) |
Mel Allen, Celebrity (1996) |
Rufus Jones, Writer (1948) |