Robert Baden-Powell
(1857–1941) lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement
“O God, make me good, but not yet”
Part 1, start of chapter 5
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
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Leonardo Da Vinci
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Rudyard Kipling
(1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist
Mother o' Mine http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/p3/motheromine.html (1891).
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Joaquin Miller
(1837–1913) American judge
The Danites: and Other Choice Selections from the Writings of Joaquin Miller (1877), p. 52.
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Variant: Oh my body, make of me a man who always questions!
Source: Black Skin, White Masks