“There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time.”

— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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

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