Why have such scores of lovely, gifted girls
Married impossible men?
Simple self-sacrifice may be ruled out,
And missionary endeavour, nine times out of ten.
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)
Reform keeps many scores of newspapers in its service, but not one man.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
What is it then between us?
What is the count of the scores or hundreds of years between us?
Whatever it is, it avails not—distance avails not, and
place avails not,
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)