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“This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among lords.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 432a95d2253baa32105d0146cde3c52e179b3f44935586dceda68627535118bf
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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