Earl Stevenson

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“The talk not of Inconstancy,
False Hearts, and broken Vows;
If I, by Miracle, can be
This live-long Minute true to thee,
‘Tis all that Heav’n allows.”
—John Wilmot, 2d Earl Of Rochester (1647–1680)

“All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)