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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

3860 Philip Dormer Stanhope

 
NUMBER:3860
AUTHOR:Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773)
QUOTATION:Sacrifice to the Graces. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Letter, March 9, 1748.
 
Note 1.
Plato was continually saying to Xenocrates, “Sacrifice to the Graces.”—Diogenes Laertius: Xenocrates, book iv. sect. 2.

Let us sacrifice to the Muses.—Plutarch: The Banquet of the Seven Wise Men. (A saying of Solon.) [back]