Earl St Vincent

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    Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    Death devours all lovely things;
    Lesbia with her sparrow
    Shares the darkness—presently
    Every bed is narrow.
    —Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)