“Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.”
Lord Chesterfield
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“In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it – thou art a fool.”
Lord Chesterfield
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“Take the tone of the company you are in.”
Lord Chesterfield
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Conformity
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“Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.”
Lord Chesterfield
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“The more one works, the more willing one is to work.”
Lord Chesterfield
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Work
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“A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.”
Lord Chesterfield
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Wit
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“Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.”
Lord Chesterfield
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Vice
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“The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.”
Lord Chesterfield
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Time
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“Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.”
Lord Chesterfield
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Time
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“I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.”
Lord Chesterfield
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“Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word.”
Lord Chesterfield
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“Character must be kept bright as well as clean.”
Lord Chesterfield
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Character
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“You must look into people, as well as at them.”
Lord Chesterfield
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“Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.”
Lord Chesterfield
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Reading
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“Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.”
Lord Chesterfield
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Belief
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“In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.”
Lord Chesterfield
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don’t choose to have it known.”
Lord Chesterfield
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Retirement
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“If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.”
Lord Chesterfield
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Persuasion
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“He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.”
Lord Chesterfield
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Persuasion
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“Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
Lord Chesterfield
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Perseverance
