Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools. - Philip Dormer Stanhope

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Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you. Follow nature and not fashion: weigh the present enjoyment of your pleasures against the necessary consequences of them, and then let your own common sense determine your choice.

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Letters to His Son on the Art ofBecoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman byChesterfield · 2006 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Keep your own secret, and get out other people's.

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People not used to the world … are unskillful enough to show what they have sense enough not to tell.

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