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Lord Chesterfield

Defects
Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
4.2 · 38 votes · 61 reads
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Defects
Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.
3.4 · 13 votes · 78 reads
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Virtues
Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
3.3 · 44 votes · 166 reads
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Virtues
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
4.7 · 30 votes · 179 reads
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Feelings
Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.
4.3 · 46 votes · 102 reads
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Various
Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.
3.6 · 55 votes · 3 reads
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Various
Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.
4.0 · 10 votes · 1 reads
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Art and Culture
Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.
3.1 · 44 votes · 19 reads
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Various
Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt,
3.9 · 11 votes · 107 reads
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Defects
Take the tone of the company you are in.
3.1 · 7 votes · 178 reads
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Time
The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
3.8 · 48 votes · 63 reads
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Society
The more one works, the more willing one is to work.
3.3 · 62 votes · 34 reads
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Society
The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
4.9 · 11 votes · 70 reads
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Society
The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable.
4.4 · 19 votes · 161 reads
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Art and Culture
Wear your learning like a watch and do not pull it out merely to show you have it. If you are asked for the time, tell it; but do not proclaim it hourly unasked.
4.7 · 50 votes · 14 reads
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Various
When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.
4.7 · 50 votes · 104 reads
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Virtues
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.
3.8 · 42 votes · 73 reads
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Various
Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces: for every woman who is
4.7 · 26 votes · 196 reads
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Virtues
Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to conceal than a crime. Many a man will confess his crimes to a friend; but I never knew a man that would tell
4.8 · 64 votes · 120 reads
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Virtues
You must look into people, as well as at them.
3.0 · 24 votes · 191 reads
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Time
Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
3.3 · 14 votes · 63 reads
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