1st Earl Russell

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    An honest man may really love a pretty girl, but only an idiot marries her merely because she is pretty.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “There is Lowell, who’s striving Parnassus to climb
    With a whole bale of isms tied together with rhyme,
    He might get on alone, spite of brambles and boulders,
    But he can’t with that bundle he has on his shoulders,
    The top of the hill he will ne’er come nigh reaching
    Till he learns the distinction ‘twixt singing and preaching;
    —James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)