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I wish... that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it.

Lord Chesterfield

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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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Style is the dress of thoughts, and let them be ever so just.
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The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease, and the manner of a gentleman has ease without freedom.
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Cottages have them (falsehood and dissimulation) as well as courts, only with worse manners.
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Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of their luster: and even polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.
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Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.
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No man can possibly improve in any company for which he has not respect enough to be under some degree of restraint.
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Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.
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Mind not only what people say, but how they say it and if you have any sagacity, you may discover more truth by your eyes than by your ears. People can say what they will, but they cannot look just as they will and their looks frequently (reveal) what their words are calculated to conceal.
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Ridicule is the best test of truth.
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Assurance and intrepidity, under the white banner of seeming modesty, clear the way for merit, that would otherwise be discouraged by difficulties...
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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.
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If a man, notoriously and designedly, insults and affronts you, knock him down but if he only injures you, your best revenge is to be extremely civil to him in your outward behaviour, though at the same time you counterwork him, and return him the compliment, perhaps with interest.
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Everything is worth seeing once, and the more one sees the less one either wonders or admires.
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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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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
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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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Women especially as to be talked to as below men, and above children.
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You must be respectable, if you will be respected.
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