Famous quotes containing the words earl and/or bedford:
“Man differs more from Man, than Man from Beast.”
—John Wilmot, 2d Earl Of Rochester (1647–1680)
“The only thing that was dispensed free to the old New Bedford whalemen was a Bible. A well-known owner of one of that city’s whaling fleets once described the Bible as the best cheap investment a shipowner could make.”
—For the State of Massachusetts, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)