Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

Unlike my subject will I frame my song, It shall be witty, and it shan't be long.

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• Unlike my subject will I frame my song, It shall be witty, and it shan't be long.

  

  Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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