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While abroad, he met with a very salacious English woman, whose liberality retrieved his fortune, with several circumstances more to the honor of his vigor than his morals. - Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield
Attribution: Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773), British statesman, man of letters. Characters of Chesterfield, 1778, repr. Augustan Reprint Society, nos. 259-260, p. 54, University of California, Los Angeles (199). Character of Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland (1705-74), statesman and politician.

Categories: Lust, Man Of Letters, Men And Women, Morals, Statesman

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