Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield quotes
"Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth but I have refused myse"
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"Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one."
"The more one works, the more willing one is to work."
"I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves."
"Learning is acquired by reading books but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired b"
"In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the nex"
"The pleasure is momentary, the position rediculous, and the expense damnable."
"Be wiser than other people if you can but do not tell them so."
"Vicious minds abound with anger and revenge are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies."