1st Earl Russell

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    I wish to God that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it to you.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare
    That you hardly at first see the strength that is there;
    A frame so robust, with a nature so sweet,
    So earnest, so graceful, so lithe and so fleet,
    Is worth a descent from Olympus to meet;
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