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I foresee, that before the end of this century, the trade of both King and Priest will not be half so good a one as it has been.

— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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Letter to his son (13 April 1752), quoted in Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to His Son, Philip Stanhope, Esq., Late Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Dresden, Vol. III (1774), p. 289

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