1st Earl of Somerset

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“Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1966)