2nd Earl Attlee

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    Spirit is now a very fashionable word: to act with Spirit, to speak with Spirit, means only to act rashly, and to talk indiscreetly. An able man shows his Spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
    —Clement Attlee (1883–1967)