Viscount
A viscount ( /ˈvaɪkaʊnt/ "vie-count", for male) or viscountess (for female) is a member of the European nobility whose comital title ranks usually, as in the British peerage, above a baron, below an earl (in the United Kingdom) or a count (the earl's continental equivalent).
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“Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.”
—John Morley [1st Viscount Morley Of Blackburn] (1838–1923)
“Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own, without thinking that you should follow theirs. Thus, in fact, they all think themselves wiser than you, whatever they may say.”
—William Lamb Melbourne, 2nd Viscount (1779–1848)
“It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.”
—William Lamb Melbourne, 2nd Viscount (1779–1848)