Earl Felton

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    “Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces: for every woman who is not absolutely ugly, thinks herself handsome.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of war.”
    —Rebecca Latimer Felton (1835–1930)