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• The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom.
  -- Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773) -- Character of Pulteney...
• Unlike my subject now shall be my song; It shall be witty, and it sha'n't be long.
  -- Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773) -- Impromptu Line...
• Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
  -- Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773) -- Letter, March 10, 1746...
• The dews of the evening most carefully shun,-- Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.
  -- Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773) -- Advice to a Lady in Autum...
• The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.
  -- Benjamin Disraeli (Earl Beaconsfield) (1805-1881) -- Endymion, Chap. lii...
• Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word.
  -- Chesterfield (1694-1773)...
• I assisted at the birth of that most significant word "flirtation," which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world.
  -- Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773) -- The World, No. 101...
• Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
• He has a splendid repertoire of 500 words. Why does he insist on using only 150? -- Abba Eba