"They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master."

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Politicians from EnglandFreemasonsNon-fiction authors from EnglandPeople from LondonBritish Ambassadors to the Netherlands
Original Language: English

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Samuel Johnson on Chesterfield's Letters, quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791), p. 1754