Famous quotes containing the words earl and/or vincent:
“Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known, than their crimes; and, if you hint to a man that you think him silly, ignorant or even ill-bred or awkward, he will hate you more and longer than it you tell him plainly that you think him a rogue.”
—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)
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