4th Earl Baldwin of Bewdley

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    Women are all so far Machiavellians that they are never either good or bad by halves; their passions are too strong, and their reason too weak, to do anything with moderation.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one’s beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.
    —James Baldwin (1924–1987)