Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well. - Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.

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Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (22 September 1694 – 24 March 1773) was a British statesman and man of letters.

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Alternative Names: Philip Dormer Stanhope • Lord Stanhope • Filip Dormer Çesterfild • Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield • Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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It is commonly said, and more particularly by Lord Shaftesbury, that ridicule is the best test of truth.

Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one’s own opinion, and a complaisant acquiescence in other people’s, preserve dignity.

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well. - Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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