Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) British statesman and man of letters
14 April 1747
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
“There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.”
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