Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry. (Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield)

Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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