Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to disp…

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Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to dispatch than method. ✨ Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son, p.149
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Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to dispatch than method. ✨ Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son, p.149

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