To govern mankind, one must not overrate them. ✨ Lord Philip Dormer St…

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To govern mankind, one must not overrate them. ✨ Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son, p.136
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