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Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word.
Lord Chesterfield
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I really think next to the consciousness of doing a good action, that of doing a civil one is the most pleasing and the epithet which I should covet the most next to that of Aristides, would be that of well-bred.
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Men have various subjects in which they may excel, or at least would be thought to excel, and though they love to hear justice done to them where they know they excel, yet they are most and best flattered upon those points where they wish to excel and yet are doubtful whether they do or not.
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Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility strength alone will not do.
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Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
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Few people do business well, who do nothing else.
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Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.
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Dispatch is the soul of business.
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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
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There will never be a better time to start quitting smoking than today
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If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
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It may be objected, that I am now recommending dissimulation to you I both own and justify it. It has been long said: Qui nescitdissimular nescit regnare: I go still farther, and say, that without some dissimulation, no business can be carried on at all.
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Most arts require long study and application, but the most useful art of all, that of pleasing, requires only the desire.
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Those whom you can make like themselves better will, I promise you, like you very well.
Lord Chesterfield
In your friendships and in your enmities let your confidence and your hostilities have certain bounds make not the former dangerous, nor the latter irreconcilable. There are strange vicissitudes in business.
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Very ugly or very beautiful women should be flattered on their understanding, and mediocre ones on their beauty.
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If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.
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A cheerful, easy, open countenance will make fools think you a good-natured man, and make designing men think you an undesigning one.
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There is a sort of veteran women of condition, who, having lived always in the grand mode, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him.
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In order to judge of the inside of others, study your own for men in general are very much alike and though one has one prevailing passion, and another has another, yet their operations are much the same and whatever engages or disgusts, pleases or offends you, in others, will, mutatis mutandis, engage, disgust, please, or offend others, in you.
Lord Chesterfield
A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art.
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