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Quotes by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
"Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth but I have refused myse"
By Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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"Ridicule is the best test of truth."
By Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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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."
By Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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"The more one works, the more willing one is to work."
By Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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"I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves."
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"Learning is acquired by reading books but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired b"
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"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"
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"The pleasure is momentary, the position rediculous, and the expense damnable."
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"Be wiser than other people if you can but do not tell them so."
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"Vicious minds abound with anger and revenge are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies."
By Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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"A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones."
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"The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will o"
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"Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial."
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