Great Throughts Treasury

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William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford

English Politician, 56th Earl and 1st Duke of Bedford, Lord General of House in Parliamentary Army

"You are to come to your study as to the table, with a sharp appetite, whereby that which you read may the better digest. He that has no stomach to his book will very hardly thrive upon it."