Let a gentleman be known to have been cheated of twenty pounds, and it costs him forty a-year for the remainder of his life.
Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen (ed. 1829)
Let a gentleman be known to have been cheated of twenty pounds, and it costs him forty a-year for the remainder of his life.
Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen (ed. 1829)