Famous Quotes | Most people have ears, but few...

Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears, and depend upon it you will catch their judgments, such as they are. - Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield
Attribution: Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773), British statesman, man of letters. letter, Dec. 9, 1749; repr. in The Letters of the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son, vol. 1, no. 206, ed. Charles Strachey (1901). (First published 1774).

Categories: Man Of Letters, Speeches And Speechmaking, Statesman

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