• There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.

  Lord Chesterfield
  English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) 1694–1773
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1. everything
2. absolutely
3. nothing

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There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing. by : Lord Chesterfield

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