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Lord Chesterfield Quotes About Time

Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.

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Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.

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The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

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The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.

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Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

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Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

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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.

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Lord Chesterfield Quotes About Love

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

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Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.

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Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.

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Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.

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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.

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More Quotes by Lord Chesterfield

The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.

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Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

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Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

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The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.

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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

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A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.

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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

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In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.

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The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

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I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.

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Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

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Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

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Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.

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The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

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Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

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Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.

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I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

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Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one.

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Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.

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There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

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Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

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In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice.

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I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.

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I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.

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Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

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The more one works, the more willing one is to work.

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A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.

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Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.

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Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.

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He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.

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As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

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Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.

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Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.

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Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.

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To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

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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.

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A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.

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Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

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If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.

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Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.

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Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

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Character must be kept bright as well as clean.

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Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.

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Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

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A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

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