Word: chesterfields
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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AARON BURR. " He was a man who came into the world to amuse himself." He loved people and people loved him?especially women. A spendthrift?something between a Chesterfield and Falstaff. He lost the presidency of the United States by a hair's breadth, he lost the governorship of New York, he lost, he lost, he lost?finally even the use of his limbs. But he enjoyed it all, because life was his game...
...understand editions and title-pages too well. It always smells of pedantry and not always of learning. What curious books I have, they are indeed but few they shall be at your service. I have some of the Old Collana, and the Macchiavel of 1550. Beware of Biblomania." --Chesterfield...
Others of Chesterfield's letters, which were written to his son, chiefly during the years in which the latter was being educated, are of even greater interest to the average college type of intelligence. Chesterfield had advice to give which was a peculiar mixture of sound morality and worldly sense, and it seems to us that he wrote and thought in very much the same key as the ordinary American of college age today. What, for example, could be more typical than the advice not to understand title-pages too well, lest it smell pedantry...