Title Earl

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“All his works might well enough be embraced under the title of one of them, a good specimen brick, “On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History.” Of this department he is the Chief Professor in the World’s University, and even leaves Plutarch behind.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Be wiser than other people, if you can; but do not tell them so.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)