“Open the old cigar-box—let me consider anew—
Old friends, and who is Maggie that I should abandon you?
A million surplus Maggies are willing to bear the yoke;
And a woman is only a woman, but a good Cigar is a Smoke.
Light me another Cuba—I hold to my first-sworn vows.
If Maggie will have no rival, I’ll have no Maggie for Spouse! ”
The Betrothed, Rudyard Kipling
“When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.”
— Alexis de Tocqueville
