All Lord Chesterfield Quotes
Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
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If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.
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Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
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Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
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I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
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Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
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Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.
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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.
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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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Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.
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Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
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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.
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A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.
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Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.
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The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
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