“In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.”

— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

9 March 1748
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)

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