Created Earl

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“Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)

“See the kind seed-receiving earth
To every grain affords a birth:
On her no showers unwelcome fall,
Her willing womb retains ‘em all,
And shall my Caelia be confined?
No, live up to thy mighty mind,
And be the mistress of Mankind!”
—John Wilmot, 2d Earl Of Rochester (1647–1680)