Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exerc…

Lord Chesterfield
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Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do. ✨ Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son, p.301
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