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Let dull critics feed upon the carcasses of plays; give me the taste…

Quote byPhilip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield · 1694–1773

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774), 6 February 1752.

English (original)

Let dull critics feed upon the carcasses of plays; give me the taste and the dressing.

— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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