Pocket all your knowledge with your watch, and never pull it out in co…

Lord Chesterfield
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Pocket all your knowledge with your watch, and never pull it out in company unless desired. ✨ Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author, p.357
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