English Speaking Union

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    “While abroad, he met with a very salacious English woman, whose liberality retrieved his fortune, with several circumstances more to the honor of his vigor than his morals.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    ““There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one,
    Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on,
    Whose prose is grand verse, while his verse, the Lord knows,
    Is some of it pr—No, ‘t is not even prose;
    I’m speaking of metres;”
    —James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)

    “Castro couldn’t even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.”
    —Richard M. Nixon (1913–1995)