Eighth Earl

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    “Thou shalt not steal.”
    —Bible: Hebrew Exodus, 20:15.

    The eighth commandment.

    “A certain degree of ceremony is a necessary outwork of manners, as well as of religion; it keeps the forward and petulant at a proper distance, and is a very small restraint to the sensible and to the well-bred part of the world.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)