People will no more advance their civility to a bear, than their money…

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People will no more advance their civility to a bear, than their money to a bankrupt. ✨ Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son, p.121
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