"Unlike my subject, I will make my song. It shall be witty, and it shan't be long."
— Epigrams

January 1, 1970

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Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield. See note by Croker in Boswell's Life of Johnson (July 19, 1763). (When Sir Thomas Robinson asked for an epigram on his friend Long).