Famous Quotes | He degraded himself by the vice...

He degraded himself by the vice of drinking, which, together with a great stock of Greek and Latin, he brought away with him from Oxford and retained and practised ever afterwards. - 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. 36, University of California, Los Angeles (1990). Character of John Carteret, Lord Granville (1690-1763), British statesman and successor to Sir Robert Walpole as chief minister, 1742-1744.

Categories: Alcoholism, Drinking, Learning, Man Of Letters, Statesman

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