Letters, sentences and maxims

(Philip Dormer Stanhope).]

LETTERS, SENTENCES AND MAXIMS

By LORD CHESTERFIELD

WITH A PREFATORY NOTE BY CHARLES SAYLE AND A CRITICAL ESSAY BY C. A. SAINTE-BEUVE, DE L’ACADEMIE FRANCAISE

“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Castalian spring.”

POPE.

A. L. BURT COMPANY, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK

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