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Great Quotes by Lord Chesterfield
- A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
- To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
- 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…
- Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in…
- A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share in another.
- Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a closet…
- 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…
- To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which…
- The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man,…
- To please people is a great step towards persuading them.
- Little secrets are commonly told again, but great ones generally kept.
- We are in truth, more than half what we are by imitation. The great point is to choose good models and to study them with…
- A judicious reticence is hard to learn, but it is one of the great lessons of life.
- Whoever is admitted or sought for, in company, upon any other account than that of his merit and manners, is never respected there, but only…
- There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with…
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