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Love Quotes by Lord Chesterfield
- Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.
- He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
- 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.
- Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
- Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
- Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.
- Take the tone of the company you are in.
- To govern mankind, one must not overrate them.
- 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…
- If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.
- Ridicule is the best test of truth.
- 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,…
- Honest error is to be pitied not ridiculed.
- Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.
- Fear manifested invites danger...
- Common sense is the best sense I know of.
- You must be respectable, if you will be respected.
- Health ... is the first and greatest of all blessings.
- A man who tells nothing, or who tells all, will equally have nothing told him.
- Seek always for the best words and the happiest expression you can find.
- Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.
- We are, in truth, more than half what we are by imitation.
- Little secrets are commonly told again, but great ones generally kept.
- Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.
- The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom.
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