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Be wiser than other people, if you can; but do not tell them so. - Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield
Attribution: Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773), British statesman, man of letters. letter, Nov. 29, 1745, first published (1774). The Letters of the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son, vol. 1, no. 104, ed. Charles Strachey (1901). Some editions give this letter as dated Nov. 19, 1745.

Categories: Discretion, Man Of Letters, Statesman

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