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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 - 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 - Lord Chesterfield Quotes

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. - Lord Chesterfield Quotes

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. - Lord Chesterfield Quotes

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 - Lord Chesterfield Quotes

An injury is much sooner forgiven than an insult

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

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. - Lord Chesterfield Quotes

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. - Lord Chesterfield Quotes

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 - Lord Chesterfield Quotes

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 - Lord Chesterfield Quotes

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

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

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

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. - Lord Chesterfield Quotes

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

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British Statesman

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

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

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It is commonly said that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is not just. I deny it. A truth learned in a certain light, and attacked in certain words, by men of wit and humor, may, and often doth, become ridiculous, at least so far, that the truth is only remembered and repeated for the sake of the ridicule. - Lord Chesterfield Quotes

It is commonly said that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is not just. I deny it. A truth learned in a certain light, and attacked in certain words, by men of wit and humor, may, and often doth, become ridiculous, at least so far, that the truth is only remembered and repeated for the sake of the ridicule.

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I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow [perhaps William Lowndes], who used to say, `Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves.' - Lord Chesterfield Quotes

I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow [perhaps William Lowndes], who used to say, `Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves.'

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The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable. - Lord Chesterfield Quotes

The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable.

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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. - Lord Chesterfield Quotes

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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British Statesman Indolence

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

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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British Statesman Indolence

Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes - Lord Chesterfield Quotes

Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes

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Crime And Criminals

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. - Lord Chesterfield Quotes

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

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British Statesman Idleness

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat. - Lord Chesterfield Quotes

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

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Books And Reading

Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in a mixed company. - Lord Chesterfield Quotes

Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in a mixed company.

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Courts and camps are the only places to learn the world in. - Lord Chesterfield Quotes

Courts and camps are the only places to learn the world in.

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Sacrifice to the Graces. - Lord Chesterfield Quotes

Sacrifice to the Graces.

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A chapter of accidents. - Lord Chesterfield Quotes

A chapter of accidents.

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Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other. - Lord Chesterfield Quotes

Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.

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Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds. - Lord Chesterfield Quotes

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

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British Statesman Idleness

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always want it the least. - Lord Chesterfield Quotes

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always want it the least.

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Take the tone of the company you are in. - Lord Chesterfield Quotes

Take the tone of the company you are in.

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British Statesman Company

Due attention to the inside of books, and due contempt for the outside, is the proper relation between a man of sense and his books. - Lord Chesterfield Quotes

Due attention to the inside of books, and due contempt for the outside, is the proper relation between a man of sense and his books.

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If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you. - Lord Chesterfield Quotes

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

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Ambition Reason

Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears, and depend upon it, you will catch those judgments, such as they are - Lord Chesterfield Quotes

Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears, and depend upon it, you will catch those judgments, such as they are

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Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics. - Lord Chesterfield Quotes

Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.

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Love

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

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

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Acquaintance British Statesman

Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately. - Lord Chesterfield Quotes

Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.

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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 man, and studying all the various editions of them. - Lord Chesterfield Quotes

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

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Books And Reading

Look in the face of the person to whom you are speaking if you wish to know his real sentiments, for he can command his words more easily than his countenance - Lord Chesterfield Quotes

Look in the face of the person to whom you are speaking if you wish to know his real sentiments, for he can command his words more easily than his countenance

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Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm. - Lord Chesterfield Quotes

Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.

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Aphorisms And Epigrams Maxim

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. - Lord Chesterfield Quotes

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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British Statesman Fear

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends. - Lord Chesterfield Quotes

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.

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Best Friends Friends Or Friendship

Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed. - Lord Chesterfield Quotes

Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.

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British Statesman

Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man. - Lord Chesterfield Quotes

Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.

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Familiarity Fun

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

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

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Accuse British Statesman

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. - Lord Chesterfield Quotes

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.

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British Statesman Custom

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. - Lord Chesterfield Quotes

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.

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British Statesman Custom

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. - Lord Chesterfield Quotes

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

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British Statesman Folly

We are, in truth, more than half of what we are by imitation - Lord Chesterfield Quotes

We are, in truth, more than half of what we are by imitation

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No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today - Lord Chesterfield Quotes

No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today

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Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies. - Lord Chesterfield Quotes

Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

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Anger Forgiveness

Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked in the general run of the world. - Lord Chesterfield Quotes

Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked in the general run of the world.

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Greatness Merit

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