4th Earl Russell

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    Young men are as apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are to think themselves sober enough. They look upon spirit to be a much better thing than experience, which they call coldness. They are but half mistaken; for though spirit without experience is dangerous, experience without spirit is languid and defective.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
    —James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)