4th Duke of Gordon

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    Hume’s doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not; that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under a hedge, and the duke rolling by in his chariot; the girl equipped for her first ball, and the orator returning triumphant from the debate, had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Constancy ... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such conterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)