Earl of Clancarty

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    “I cannot give them my confidence; pardon me, gentlemen, confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom: youth is the season of credulity.”
    —William, Earl Of Pitt (1708–1778)

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    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)