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A man who tells nothing, or who tells all, will equally have nothing told him. ✨ Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman. Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1774.
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A man who tells nothing, or who tells all, will equally have nothing told him. ✨ Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman. Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1774.

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