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"For my part, I like more straight-forward work."

— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

January 1, 1970

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George III on Chesterfield's Letters, as recorded in Frances Burney's journal (April or May 1774), quoted in The Early Diary of Frances Burney, 1768–1778: With a Selection from Her Correspondence, and From the Journals of Her Sisters Susan and Charlotte Burney, Vol. I, ed. Annie Raine Ellis (1889), p. 305

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George III on Chesterfield's Letters, as recorded in Frances Burney's journal (April or May 1774), quoted in The Early Diary of Frances Burney, 1768–1778: With a Selection from Her Correspondence, and From the Journals of Her Sisters Susan and Charlotte Burney, Vol. I, ed. Annie Raine Ellis (1889), p. 305