Famous quotes containing the words earl and/or bedford:
“Singularity is only pardonable in old age and retirement; I may now be as singular as I please, but you may not.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“When, said Mr. Phillips, he communicated to a New Bedford audience, the other day, his purpose of writing his life, and telling his name, and the name of his master, and the place he ran from, the murmur ran round the room, and was anxiously whispered by the sons of the Pilgrims, “He had better not!” and it was echoed under the shadow of the Concord monument, “He had better not!””
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)