Henry John Temple

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    His spiritual life has been exaggerated by a chronic attack of mental gallstones.
    —Oliver St. John Gogarty (1878–1957)

    If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.
    Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616)