17th Earl of Oxford

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“Words, which are the dress of thoughts, deserve surely more care than clothes, which are only the dress of the person.”
—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)