“The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind; “they will both fall into the ditch.””

—  Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

24 November 1747
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)

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