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You Quotes by Lord Chesterfield
- Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow…
- Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
- Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.
- Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
- Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
- I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
- Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not…
- Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.
- Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.
- 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.
- Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.
- If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.
- Take the tone of the company you are in.
- Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases…
- Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well,…
- You must look into people, as well as at them.
- If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.
- Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.
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