"No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else."
— Business

January 1, 1970

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Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694-1773), British statesman, man of letters. Letter, 7 August 1749, in The Letters of the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son (1774).