17th Duke of Somerset

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    I hate the whole race.... There is no believing a word they say—your professional poets, I mean—there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.
    Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke Wellington (1769–1852)

    We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
    —W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)