1st Earl of Mansfield

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    The King [Charles II] after the Restoration accused the poet, Edmund Waller, of having made finer verses in praise of Oliver Cromwell than of himself; to which he agreed, saying, that Fiction was the soul of Poetry.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    Were we positive, eager, real—alive? No, we were not. We were a nothingness shot with gleams of what might be.
    —Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923)