Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quote

May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer, or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after!


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


May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer, or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after!

May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer, or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after!

May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer, or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after!

May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer, or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after!