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Your Quotes by Lord Chesterfield
- Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.
- 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.
- 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.
- Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.
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