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Letter to his son, #205 (5 Dec 1749) - Chesterfield (Lord) | WIST Quotations
Such closet politicians never fail to assign the deepest motives for the most trifling actions; instead of often ascribing the greatest actions to the most trifling causes, in which they would be much seldomer mistaken. They read and write of kings, heroes, and statesmen, as never doing any thing but…