Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quote

I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments.


Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son (ed. 1827)


I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him...

I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him...

I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him...

I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him...