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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 361 |
| AUTHOR: | Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) |
| QUOTATION: | Let dull critics feed upon the carcases of plays; give me the taste and the dressing. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | LORD CHESTERFIELD, letter to Philip Stanhope, his natural son, February 6, 1752.—The Letters of Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, vol. 5, p. 1826 (1932). |
| SUBJECTS: | Critics |
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