The actor dies and leaves no copy; his deeds are writ in water, only his name survives upon tradition’s tongue, and yet, from Betterton and Garrick to Irving, from Macklin and Quin to Wyndham and Jefferson, how few!
Watterson laments the ephemeral nature of an actor's legacy, noting that their true impact often fades with time.
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But he can hardly be called a sentimentalist, as Greeley was, and there is nothing but sentiment—gush and gammon—in the proposed League of Nations.
In short he was an opportunist void of conviction and indifferent to consistency.
With a kind of education—most men taught to read, very few to think—the masses are likely to demand yet more and more for themselves.
Too many churches—or, shall I say, church fabrics—breeding controversy where there should be agreement, each sect and subdivision fighting phantoms of its fancy.
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