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Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one’s self to be acquainted with it.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.

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If you can once engage people’s pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

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May 21, 2024

If you can once engage people’s pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

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May 21, 2024

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.

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