More - Lord Chesterfield Quotes

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

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Do as you would be done by is the surest method of pleasing

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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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 British Statesman Business

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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 British Statesman

An injury is much sooner forgiven than an insult

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 Forgiveness

Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should

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 Dirt

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

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 British Statesman

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

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 British Statesman

While I can crawl upon this planet I think myself obliged to do what good I can, in my narrow domestic spheres, to my fellow creatures, and to wish them all the good I cannot do

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Women, and young men, are very apt to tell what secrets they know, from the vanity of having been trusted

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 Men