“I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has ever heard me laugh.”

— 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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“I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has ever heard me laugh.”

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