Lord Chesterfield
Quotes by Lord Chesterfield
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to Dispatch than Method.
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Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age.
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Observe any meetings of people, and you will always find their eagerness and impetuosity rise or fall in proportion to their numbers.
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Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.
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Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay.
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The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
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The heart has such an influence over the understanding that it is worth while to engage it in our interest.
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Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
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If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.
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Whoever plays deep must necessarily lose his money or his character.
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The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.
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It is good breeding alone that can prepossess people in your favor at first sight, more time being necessary to discover greater talents.
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Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.
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People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority.
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Either a good or a bad reputation outruns and gets before people wherever they go.
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Human nature is the same everywhere; the modes only are different.
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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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An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that is all.
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We are, in truth, more than half what we are by imitation.
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