Gread quote. Hervey has some dissings of Chesterfield in his memoirs - they were competing wits, and also the Whigs were split in two factions; Chesterfield, after early on being part of the Robert Walpole faction, then changed his mind and joined the other faction, going as far as anonymously publishing a journal called "Old England" trashing Walpole and G2, so he and Hervey were political enemies as well. But even Hervey admits the man knew how to coin a phrase.

(Doctor Johnson had a famous clash with Chesterfield years later and said apropos the "Letters to his son" that Chesterfield's idea of being a gentleman clearly involved having the morals of a whore and the manners of a dancing master.)