"He makes people pleased with him by making……" — Lord Chesterfield
"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."
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- Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
- Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
- The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old…
- In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
- A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
- Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.
- An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
- Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the…
- Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
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