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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000039.txt from 2005/04

From: Oboeeee@-----.com
Subj: [DR-L] Quote of the Day
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 22:01:06 -0400


"Were you to converse with a king, you ought to be as easy and unembarrasse=
d=20
as with your own valet-de chambre; but yet every look, word, and action=20
should imply the utmost respect.... You must wait till you are spoken to; y=
ou=20
must receive, not give the subject of conversation, and you must even take=20=
care=20
that the given subject of such conversation does not lead you into any=20
impropriety."

-Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694=E2=80=931773) British=20
statesman, man of letters

Letter, June 13, 1751, Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip=20
Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl, Earl of Chesterfield, to his Son, Philip Stanhop=
e,=20
4th Earl, Esq, 5th ed., vol. III, p. 203, London (1774)

*The rules vis-=C3=A0-vis British royalty remain more or less the same as t=
hose=20
defined by Chesterfield, who had frequent contacts with the king and queen=20
throughout his career. =20

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