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Lord Chesterfield’s Advice to His Son, On Men and Manners: or, A New System of Education, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 1815
…if, in studying a problem in his closet, he were to think of a minuet, I am apt to believe that he would make a very poor mathematician.
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Lord Chesterfield’s Advice to His Son, On Men and Manners: or, A New System of Education,
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 1815
I would rather be in company with a dead man, than with an absent one: for if the dead man affords me no pleasure, at least he shews me no contempt; whereas the absent man very plainly, though silently, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention.
