Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.
ATTRIBUTION:
Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773), British statesman, man of letters. letter Oct. 9, 1746. The Letters of the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son, vol. 1, no. 113, first published (1774), ed. Charles Strachey (1901).
