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In short, let it be your maxim through life, to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the informations of others (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
Every man is to be had one way or another, and every woman almost any way (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
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 (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 (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
Flattery, though a base coin, is the necessary pocket money at court; where, by custom and consent, it has obtained such a currency that it is no longer a fraudulent, but a legal payment (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
A man’s penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by which to judge his peculiarities of taste and sentiments (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
It is often more necessary to conceal contempt than resentment; the former is never forgiven, but the later is sometimes forgotten (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
A vulgar man is captious and jealous; eager and impetuous about trifles. He suspects himself to be slighted, and thinks everything that is said meant at him (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
Women and young men are very apt to tell what secrets they know from the vanity of having been intrusted (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
Nothing sharpens the arrow of sarcasm so keenly as the courtesy that polishes it; no reproach is like that we clothe with a smile and present with a bow (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
Real friendship is a slow grower, and never thrives unless engrafted upon a stock of known and reciprocal merit (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
These poor mistaken people think they shine, and they do indeed, but it is as putrefaction shines, in the dark (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
Nothing is more dissimilar than natural and acquired politeness. The first consists in a willing abnegation of self; the second in a compelled recollection of others (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter, as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
If a fool knows a secret, he tells it because he is a fool; if a knave knows one, he tells it wherever it is his interest to tell it (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
Experience only can teach men not to prefer what strikes them for the present moment, to what will have much greater weight with the them hereafter (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
Many new years you may see, but happy ones you cannot see without deserving them. These virtue, honor, and knowledge alone can merit, alone can produce (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
Cautiously avoid talking of the domestic affairs either of yourself or of other people. Yours are nothing to them but tedious gossip, theirs are nothing to you (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 (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
Most arts require long study and application; but the most useful art of all, that of pleasing, requires only the desire (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
Awkwardness is a more real disadvantage than it is generally thought to be; it often occasions ridicule, it always lessens dignity (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
Men, as well as women, are oftener led by their hearts than their understandings. The way to the heart is through the senses; please their eyes and ears, and the work is half done (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
A man’s fortune is frequently decided by his first address. If pleasing, others at once conclude he has merit; but if ungraceful, they decide against him (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
I am sure that since I had the use of my reason, no human being has ever heard me laugh (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)