Patience


WHEN Lord Chesterfield was one day at Newcastle House, the Duke

happening to be very particularly engaged, the Earl was requested to sit

down in an ante-room. Garnet upon Job, a book dedicated to the Duke,

happened to lie in the window; and his Grace, on entering, found the

Earl so busily engaged in reading, that he asked how he liked the

commentary. In any other place, replied Chesterfield, I should not

think much of it; but there is so much propriety in putting a volume

upon patience in the room where every visitor has to wait for your

Grace, that here it must be considered as one of the best books in

the world.



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