Famous Quotes | At any age we must cherish...

At any age we must cherish illusions, consolatory or merely pleasant; in youth, they are omnipresent; in old age we must search for them, or even invent them. But with all that, boredom is their natural and inevitable accompaniment. - Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield
Attribution: Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773), British statesman, man of letters. letter, Nov. 11, 1752, The French Correspondence of the 4th Earl of Chesterfield, vol. I, p. 96, ed. Rex A. Barrell, trans. James Gray, Ottawa, Borealis Press (1980).

Categories: Illusions, Man Of Letters, Statesman

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