1st Duke of Somerset

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    When the Prince of Wales [later King George IV] and the Duke of York went to visit their brother Prince William [later William IV] at Plymouth, and all three being very loose in their manners, and coarse in their language, Prince William said to his ship’s crew, “now I hope you see that I am not the greatest blackguard of my family.”
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    When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
    —W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)