1st Earl Russell

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    “The characteristic of a well-bred man is, to converse with his inferiors without insolence, and with his superiors with respect and with ease.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “They talk about their Pilgrim blood,
    Their birthright high and holy!
    A mountain-stream that ends in mud
    Methinks is melancholy.”
    —James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)