Quote #45938

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

Philip Dormer Stanhope (Earl of Chesterfield)

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Source: Letters to His Son [July 20, 1749]

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Letters to His Son [July 20, 1749]

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Philip Dormer Stanhope (Earl of Chesterfield)Independent thinker

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