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Feb 10: Voltaire's LETTERS ON THE ENGLISH

No Fancy for a Plain Gentleman

Voltaire once visited Congreve. This famous dramatist requested
to be regarded only as a plain gentleman. "Had you been that
I should never have come to see you," Voltaire cynically
replies.

Read from Voltaire's LETTERS ON THE ENGLISH ....   Vol. 34, pp. 130-140