1st Earl of St Vincent

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    Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we are old.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    I will be the gladdest thing
    Under the sun!
    I will touch a hundred flowers
    And not pick one.
    —Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)