LORD CHESTERFIELD.

WITTICISMS are often attributed to the wrong people. It was Lord

Chesterfield, not Sheridan, who said, on occasion of a certain marriage,

that "Nobody's son had married Everybody's daughter."

Lord Chesterfield remarked of two persons dancing a minuet, that "they

looked as if they were hired to do it, and were doubtful of being paid."

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