1st Earl Spencer

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“Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in mixed company; it should only be treated among a very few people of learning, for mutual instruction. It is too awful and respectable a subject to become a familiar one.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.”
—Anne Spencer (1882–1975)