Famous Quotes | No man tastes pleasures truly,...

No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else. - Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield
Attribution: Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773), British statesman, man of letters. repr. in The Letters of the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son, vol. 1, no. 189, ed. Charles Strachey (1901). letter, Aug. 7, 1749 (1774).

Categories: Business And Commerce, Man Of Letters, Statesman

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