1st Earl of Mansfield

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    I am grown old, and have possibly lost a great deal of that fire, which formerly made me love fire in others at any rate, and however attended with smoke: but now I must have all sense, and cannot, for the sake of five righteous lines, forgive a thousand absurd ones.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    To work—to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.
    —Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923)