Grand Duke of Hesse

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    “We now come to the grand law of the system in which we are placed, as it has been developed by the experience of our race, and that, in one word, is SACRIFICE!”
    —Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)

    “That celebrated,
    Cultivated
    Underrated
    Nobleman,
    The Duke of Plaza-Toro!”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.”
    —Hermann Hesse (1877–1962)