Philip II Augustus

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    True, that true beauty virtue is indeed,
    Whereof this beauty can be but a shade,
    Which elements with mortal mixture breed.
    True, that on earth we are but pilgrims made,
    And should in soul up to our country move.
    True, and yet true that I must Stella love.
    —Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)

    I am not a literary man.... I am a man of science, and I am interested in that branch of Anthropology which deals with the history of human speech.
    —J.A.H. (James Augustus Henry)