17th Earl of Oxford

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“Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“During the first formative centuries of its existence, Christianity was separated from and indeed antagonistic to the state, with which it only later became involved. From the lifetime of its founder, Islam was the state, and the identity of religion and government is indelibly stamped on the memories and awareness of the faithful from their own sacred writings, history, and experience.”
—Bernard Lewis, U.S. Middle Eastern specialist. Islam and the West, ch. 8, Oxford University Press (1993)