Crowns Quote by Elizabeth Oakes Smith
“Yes, this is life; and everywhere we meet, Not victor crowns, but wailings of defeat.”
“Yes, this is life; and everywhere we meet, Not victor crowns, but wailings of defeat.”
![“Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to monkeys to lemurs] - leading us insensibly from the crown and summit of the animal creation down to creatures, from which there is but a step, as it seems, to the…” quote by Thomas Huxley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f0b/thomas-huxley-1183_animal_perhaps-no-order-of-mammals-presents-us_3051.jpg)
