1st Earl of Bedford

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    Women are all so far Machiavellians that they are never either good or bad by halves; their passions are too strong, and their reason too weak, to do anything with moderation.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    A part, a large part, of travelling is an engagement of the ego v. the world.... The world is hydra headed, as old as the rocks and as changing as the sea, enmeshed inextricably in its ways. The ego wants to arrive at places safely and on time.
    —Sybille Bedford (b. 1911)