"As one lamp lights another, nor grows less, So nobleness enkindleth nobleness."
— Nobility

January 1, 1970

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James Russell Lowell, "Yussouf", lines 17–18, The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (1900), p. 376. Selected by Charles W. Eliot, president of Harvard, to be inscribed above the statue of Art, Main Reading Room, Library of Congress.