Viscount Bury

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“When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.”
—Lucius Cary Falkland, 2nd Viscount (1610–1643)

“Slavery and servility have produced no sweet-scented flower annually, to charm the senses of men, for they have no real life: they are merely a decaying and a death, offensive to all healthy nostrils. We do not complain that they live, but that they do not get buried. Let the living bury them; even they are good for manure.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)