17th Earl of Oxford

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“I recommend to you to take care of the minutes; for hours will take care of themselves.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“Christianity as an organized religion has not always had a harmonious relationship with the family. Unlike Judaism, it kept almost no rituals that took place in private homes. The esteem that monasticism and priestly celibacy enjoyed implied a denigration of marriage and parenthood.”
—Beatrice Gottlieb, U.S. historian. The Family in the Western World from the Black Death to the Industrial Age, ch. 12, Oxford University Press (1993)