Quote #20
Dispatch is the soul of business.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
More from Philip Stanhope
- Style is the dress of thoughts.
- Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
- Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
- Let blockheads read what blockheads write.
- Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.
- It is commonly said, and more particularly by Lord Shaftesbury, that ridicule is the best test of truth.
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