7th Earl of Glasgow

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    A certain degree of ceremony is a necessary outwork of manners, as well as of religion; it keeps the forward and petulant at a proper distance, and is a very small restraint to the sensible and to the well-bred part of the world.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    Doesn’t all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
    —Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)