1st Earl Russell

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    Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    The snow had begun in the gloaming,
    And busily all the night
    Had been heaping field and highway
    With a silence deep and white.
    —James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)