Quote #5
Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
More from Philip Stanhope
- The dews of the evening most carefully shun - Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.
- The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
- Unlike my subject will I frame my song, It shall be witty, and it shan't be long.
- An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
- I assisted at the birth of that most significant word 'flirtation,' which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world.
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- The chapter of knowledge is a very short, but the chapter of accidents is a very long one.
- The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.