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There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. (Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield)
You must look into people as well as at them. View quote
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The more one works, the more willing one is to work. View quote
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The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment. View quote
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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. View quote
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If you are not in fashion, you are nobody. View quote
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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. View quote
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Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow. View quote
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The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. View quote
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Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act. View quote
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Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults. (Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield)
Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health. View quote
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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool. View quote
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I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes. View quote
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Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding. View quote
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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. View quote
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Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them. View quote
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The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it. View quote
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The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older. View quote
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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. View quote
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Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue. (Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield)
As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless. View quote
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Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you. View quote
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Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old. View quote
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Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads. View quote
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