Earl Stevenson

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“Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in mixed company; it should only be treated among a very few people of learning, for mutual instruction. It is too awful and respectable a subject to become a familiar one.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)