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" Buy good books, and read them ; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads ; for they may profit of the former. "
The Book of the Courtier from the Italian of Count Baldassare Castiglione - Page lxxxvi
by conte Baldassarre Castiglione - 1900 - 377 pages
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The Bibliographical Decameron: Or, Ten Days Pleasant Discourse ..., Volume 3

Thomas Frognall Dibdin - Bibliography - 1817 - 606 pages
...find something better to do than to run to Mr. Osbome's, at Gray's Inn, to pick up SCARCE поокв. BUY good books, and read them. The best books are the commonest, [Oh, heresy unprecedented '.] and the last editions are always the best if the editors eagles of that...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 34

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1853 - 704 pages
...survive, and will long survive. In one of his letters to his son he says, with truth and prescience, " Buy good books and read them ; the best books are...always the best, if the Editors are not blockheads, for they may profit of the former." This is especially true of his own works. The last edition of Lord...
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Letters on education

Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1847 - 492 pages
...will find something better to do, than to run to Mr. Osborne's at Gray's Inn, to pick up scarce books. Buy good books, and read them ; the best books are...always the best, if the editors are not blockheads ; for they may profit of the former. But take care not to understand editions and title-pages too well....
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Works, Including His Letters to His Son, &c: To which is Prefixed an ...

Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1853 - 764 pages
...will find something better to do than to run to Mr Oshorne's at Gray's Inn, to pick up scarce books. Buy good books, and read them ; the best books are...always the best, if the editors are not blockheads, for they may profit of the former. But take care not to understand editions and title pages too well....
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Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son

Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1857 - 642 pages
...will find something better to do than to run to Mr. Osborne's at Gray's Inn, to pick np scarce books. Buy good books, and read them ; the best books are...always the best, if the editors are not blockheads, for they may profit of the former. But take care not to understand editions and title pages too well....
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Letters, sentences, and maxims by lord Chesterfield [selected from Letters ...

Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1870 - 290 pages
...will find something better to do, than to run to Mr. Osborne's at Gray's-Inn, to pickup scarce books. Buy good books, and read them ; the best books are...the commonest, and the last editions are always the 1 Benediet XIV. — the amiable Lambertini, who was thought by Chesterfield too much of a savant and...
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Letters written by lord Chesterfield to his son, ed. with notes ..., Volume 1

Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.) - 1872 - 474 pages
...will find something better to do than to run to Mr Osborne's at Gray's Inn to pick up scarce books. Buy good books, and read them ; the best books are...always the best, if the editors are not blockheads, for they may profit of the former. But take care not to understand editions and title-pages too well....
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Letters, Sentences, and Maxims

Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1888 - 346 pages
...will find something better to do than to run to Mr. Osborne's at Gray'sInn, to pick up scarce books. Buy good books, and read them ; the best books are...always the best, if the editors are not blockheads ; for they may profit of the former. But take care not to understand editions and title-pages too well....
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Letters of Philip Dormer, Fourth Earl of Chesterfield, to His Godson and ...

Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Authors, English - 1890 - 448 pages
...extensive one, contains all the best works of reference, and perhaps illustrates his own dictum : — " Buy good books and read them ; the best books are...editions are always the best if the editors are not blockheads3." It remains to say something of the youth to whom these letters were addressed, though...
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Lord Chesterfield's Worldly Wisdom: Selections from His Letters and Characters

Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1891 - 296 pages
...is the proper relation between a man of sense and his books. Letters to AM Son, ii. 127. • • • Buy good books, and read them ; the best books are...always the best, if the editors are not blockheads ; for they may profit of the former. But take care not to understand editions and titlepages too well....
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