You must be respectable, if you will be respected. ✨ Lord Chesterfield…

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You must be respectable, if you will be respected. ✨ Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). Lord Chesterfield's Letters, p.197, Oxford University Press
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You must be respectable, if you will be respected. ✨ Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). Lord Chesterfield's Letters, p.197, Oxford University Press

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