Viscount Galway - Viscounts Galway, Third Creation (1692) and Earl of Galway (1697)

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“The creation of “strong-minded” women, so-called, is due to the individualism of men, to the modern selfish and speculative spirit which absorbs everything within itself and leaves women nothing but self-assertion for their protection and support.”
—“Jennie June” Croly 1829–1901, U.S. founder of the woman’s club movement, journalist, author, editor. Demorest’s Illustrated Monthly and Mirror of Fashions, p. 44 (February 1870)

“I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“We dreamed that a great painter had been born
To cold Clare rock and Galway rock and thorn,
To that stern colour and that delicate line
That are our secret discipline
Wherein the gazing heart doubles her might....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)