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No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.

— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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In short, let it be your maxim through life, to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the informations of others.

Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)

Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.

Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)

The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind; “they will both fall into the ditch.”

Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.

Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)

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