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Lord Chesterfield
September 22, 1694 - 1773
Nationality: British
Category: Statesman
Subcategory: British Statesman

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.

   

Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.

   

Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.

   

You must look into people as well as at them.

   

Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.

   

If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.

   

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

    Topics: Courage

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

   

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

   

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day.

   

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

   

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

   

Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one.

   

A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.

   

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

   

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

   

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.

   

Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.

   

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

   

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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