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Lord Chesterfield Inspirational Quotes (231)

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In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.
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There is hardly any place or any company where you may not gain knowledge, if you please almost everybody knows some one thing, and is glad to talk about that one thing.
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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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Letters should be easy and natural, and convey to the persons to whom we send them just what we should say to the persons if we were with them.
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Be wiser than other people if you can but do not tell them so.
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Not to care for philosophy is to be a true philospher.
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Indifference is commonly the mother of discretion.
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A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.
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Keep your hands clean and pure from the infamous vice of corruption, a vice so infamous that it degrades even the other vices thatmay accompany it. Accept no present whatever let your character in that respect be transparent and without the least speck, for as avarice is the vilest and dirtiest vice in private, corruption is so in public life.
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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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A certain degree of ceremony is a necessary outwork of manners, as well as of religion it keeps the forward and petulant at a proper distance, and is a very small restraint to the sensible and to the well-bred part of the world.
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Sexual intercourse is a grossly overrated pastime the position is undignified, the pleasure momentary and the consequences damnable.
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An honest man may really love a pretty girl, but only an idiot marries her merely because she is pretty.
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When one is at play, one should not think of one's learning.
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Keep your own secret, and get out other people's. Keep your own temper, and artfully warm other people's. Counterwork your rivalswith diligence and dexterity, but at the same time with the utmost personal civility to them: and be firm without heat.
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The best way to compel weak-minded people to adopt our opinion, is to frighten them from all others, by magnifying their danger.
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When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.
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If you have wit, use it to please and not to hurt: you may shine like the sun in the temperate zones without scorching.
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Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.
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Love has been not unaptly compared to the small-pox, which most people have sooner or later.
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So much are our minds influenced by the accidents of our bodies, that every man is more the man of the day than a regular and consequential character.
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Take rather than give the tone to the company you are in. If you have parts you will show them more or less upon every subject and if you have not, you had better talk sillily upon a subject of other people's than of your own choosing.
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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.
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Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to dispatch than method.
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