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Mar 11, 2015, 02:32 AM
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Lord Chesterfield's Advice
LETTERS TO HIS SON by the EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
on the Fine Art of becoming a
MAN OF THE WORLD and a GENTLEMAN (1749)
A Fool cannot withstand the charms of a toy-shop: snuff-boxes, watches, heads of canes, &c. are his destruction.
His servants and tradesmen conspire with his own indolence to cheat him; and, in a very little time, he is astonished, in the midst of all these ridiculous superfluities, to find himself in want of all the real comforts and necessaries of life.
Never, from a mistaken economy, buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap; or, from a silly pride, because it is dear.
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Mar 11, 2015, 05:07 PM
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King of Mars
Good advice. I wish I could do it.
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Mar 11, 2015, 05:19 PM
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Is he the guy that made the sofa's ?
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Mar 11, 2015, 07:06 PM
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The Dude Abides
Great.
Where was he right before I bought my first Rolex........?
"Either He's Dead, Or My Watch Has Stopped....."
Groucho Marx
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