Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
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Lord Chesterfield Quote
“It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and therefore one seldom does it at all.”
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