2nd Earl of Somerset

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    While abroad, he met with a very salacious English woman, whose liberality retrieved his fortune, with several circumstances more to the honor of his vigor than his morals.
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    At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
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