Next to doing things that deserve to be written, nothing gets a man mo…

Lord Chesterfield
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Next to doing things that deserve to be written, nothing gets a man more credit, or gives him more pleasure than to write things that deserve to be read.
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Wrongs are often forgiven; but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. ✨ 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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Next to doing things that deserve to be written, nothing gets a man more credit, or gives him more pleasure than to write things that deserve to be read.

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