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The Chesterton version looks like it was designed to poke the older (and in my opinion better) advice from Lord Chesterfield:
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Or, rephrased as Simon did:
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I strongly recommend his letters to his son. They contain quite a bit of great advice- as well as politics and health and so on. As it was private advice given to an heir, most of it is fully sound.
(In fact, it's been a while. I probably ought to find my copy and give it another read.)
2arundelo
A favorite of mine, but according to Wikiquote G.K. Chesterton said it first, in chapter 14 of What's Wrong With The World:
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