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All I desire for my own burial, is not to be buried alive; but how or where, I think, must be entirely indifferent to every rational creature (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
In the ordinary course of things, how many succeed in society merely by virtue of their manners, while others, however meritorious, fail through lack of them? After all, it’s only barbarians who wear uncut precious stones (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
Business by no means forbids pleasures; on the contrary, they reciprocally season each other; and I will venture to affirm that noman enjoys either in perfection that does not join both (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
Half the business is done, when one has gained the heart and the affections of those with whom one is to transact it (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
In business be as able as you can, but do not be cunning; cunning is the dark sanctuary of incapacity (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
An honest man may really love a pretty girl, but only an idiot marries her merely because she is pretty (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
There is not a more prudent maxim, than to live with one’s enemies as if they may one day become one’s friends; as it commonly happens, sooner or later, in the vicissitudes of political affairs (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
Gold and silver are but merchandise, as well as cloth or linen; and that nation that buys the least, and sells the most, must always have the most money (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
The talent of insinuation is more useful than that of persuasion, as everybody is open to insinuation, but scarce any to persuasion (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
The company of women of fashion will improve your manners, though not your understanding; and that complaisance and politeness, which are so useful in men’s company, can only be acquired in women’s (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
A wise man will live as much within his wit as his income... Bear this truth always in your mind, that you may be admired for your wit, if you have any; but that nothing but good sense and good qualities can make you be loved (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
Remember that the wit, humour, and jokes of most mixed companies are local. They thrive in that particular soil, but will not often bear transplanting (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
When griefs are genuine, I find, there is nothing more vacuous, more burdensome, or even more impertinent, than letters of consolation (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
Give nobly to indigent merit, and do not refuse your charity even to those who have not merit but their misery (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
A man of sense soon discovers, because he carefully observes, where and how long he is welcome; and takes care to leave the company at least as soon as he is wished out of it. Fools never perceive whether they are ill timed or ill placed (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
Violent measures are always dangerous, but, when necessary, may then be looked on as wise. They have, however, the advantage of never being matter of indifference; and, when well concerted, must be decisive (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
The greatest dangers have their allurements, if the want of success is likely to be attended with a degree of glory. Middling dangers are horrid, when the loss of reputation is the inevitable consequence of ill success (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
It is to be presumed, that a man of common sense, who does not desire to please, desires nothing at all; since he must know that he cannot obtain anything without it (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
Armies, though always the supporters and tools of absolute power for the time being, are always the destroyers of it too; by frequently changing the hands in which they think proper to lodge it (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
One of the greatest difficulties in civil war is, that more art is required to know what should be concealed from our friends, than what ought to be done against our enemies (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
Singularity is only pardonable in old age and retirement; I may now be as singular as I please, but you may not (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
I am in the pitiable situation of feeling all the force of temptation without having the strength to succumb to it (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
Never write down your speeches beforehand; if you do, you may perhaps be a good declaimer, but will never be a debater (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
Many people come into company full of what they intend to say in it themselves, without the least regard to others; and thus charged up to the muzzle are resolved to let it off at any rate (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
Instead of giving in to the greatest misfortune that can happen at my age, deafness, I busy myself in searching out all possible compensations, and I apply myself much more to all the amusements that are here within my grasp (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
We are hardly ever grateful for a fine clock or watch when it goes right, and we pay attention to it only when it falters, for then we are caught by surprise. It ought to be the other way about (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
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 (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)
Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable (Lord Chesterfield Quotes)