The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own. …

Charles Caleb Colton
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The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own. ✨ Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Charles Caleb Colton (1861). Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'., p.125
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