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Inspirational Quotes by Lord Chesterfield
- Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
- In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
- Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
- He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
- 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…
- Character must be kept bright as well as clean.
- If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.
- Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
- Take the tone of the company you are in.
- To govern mankind, one must not overrate them.
- When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.
- Every man is to be had one way or another and every woman almost anyway.
- History is but a confused heap of facts.
- If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.
- Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature.
- Give Dayrolles a chair.
- Firmness of purpose is one of the best instruments of success.
- Do as you would be done by, is the surest method of pleasing.
- Always make the best of the best, and never make bad worse.
- Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference.
- Ridicule is the best test of truth.
- In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.
- It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates,…
- People will no more advance their civility to a bear, than their money to a bankrupt.
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