2nd Earl of Essex

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    The company of women of fashion will improve your manners, though not your understanding; and that complaisance and politeness, which are so useful in men’s company, can only be acquired in women’s.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    Well, it seems to me a scientist has need for both vision and confidence.
    —Harry Essex (b. 1910)