An idea from Letters to His Son

Most young people chase pleasure as their friends define it: drinking, gambling and swearing. A rake takes the lowest ones. A man of pleasure picks his own, with taste, because borrowed pleasures cost money, health and good company.

From Letters to His Son by Lord Chesterfield

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