"Human nature is the same everywhere; the modes……" — Lord Chesterfield
"Human nature is the same everywhere; the modes only are different."
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Lord Chesterfield
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228 Quotes by Lord Chesterfield
Lord Chesterfield has 228 quotes on this site.
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Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination:…
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Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
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Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere,…
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Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
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Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
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The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old…
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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
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A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
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Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.
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An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
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Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the…
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Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
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There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be,…
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The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
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I like going everywhere. And I love starting new things.
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Among Muslims, I think there are some who are very good and some hoodlums, like everywhere.
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Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although…
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The examples of the Obama Administration 'stimulating' jobs everywhere on the planet except here in America are endless.
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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the…
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these…
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I love just how beautiful Vancouver is. I mean, everywhere you look it's just mountains and ocean.
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Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are…
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This veridic nose arrives everywhere a quarter of an hour before its master. Ten shoemakers, good round fat ones too,…
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