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"When I ask for a garment of a particular form, my tailoress tells me gravely, "They do not make them so now," not emphasizing the 'They' at all, as if she quoted an authority as impersonal as the Fates,...
When I hear this oracular sentence, I am for a moment absorbed in thought, emphasizing to myself each word separately that I may come at the meaning of it, that I may find out by what degree of consanguinity They are related to me, and what authority they may have in an affair which affects me so nearly.
And, finally, I am inclined to answer to her with equal mystery, and without any more emphasis of the 'they,' " -It is true, they did not make them so recently,
but they do now." -Henry David Thoreau
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