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Letters to His Son, 1759-65 On the Fine Art

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Letters to His Son, 1759-65 On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman by Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield. Complete public-domain text from Project Gutenberg eBook #3359.

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