It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose either. A man of business should always have his eyes open, but must often seem to have them shut.
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Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
These are some quotes by British author Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Statesman, who lived between September 22, 1694 and March 24, 1773.
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Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit of a lab for bad behavior. You can test things out without terrible consequences. Or maybe the consequences are there, but they are deferred, buried, much harder to detect.