1. A man of letters, a man of love and a man of lies.

2. He is a man of letters.

3. He was known as a man of letters.

4. He was a man of letters with no interest in current affairs.

5. Tao Yuanming was a man of letters and refined scholar in ancient times.

6. As a man of letters and a connoisseur, his three kinds of songs are cordial, emotional and consistent in the rhythm of music and Chinese musical scale.

7. As a man of letters, Fraser tends to emphasise rhetoric at the expense of reality.

8. Lu Xun might be called a soldier rather than a man of letters.

9. Mr Miller gave up his career as a doctor to become a man of letters.