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Own Quotes by Lord Chesterfield
- Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
- A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
- If you will please people, you must please them in their own way.
- Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything…
- People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority.
- Enjoy pleasures, but let them be your own, and then you will taste them.
- If you will please people, you must please them in their own way; and as you cannot make them what they should be, you must…
- For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives…
- Study the heart and the mind of man, and begin with your own. Meditation and reflection must lay the foundation of that knowledge, but experience…
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