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Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield: Most arts require long study and application; but the most useful art of all…

Most arts require long study and application; but the most useful art of all, that of pleasing, requires only the desire.

In today’s wordsMost skills take long study and practice, but the most useful skill of all, pleasing people, takes only the desire.

Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of ChesterfieldCommonly attributed
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From the book Quoted in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, compiled by Josiah H. Gilbert, 1895

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