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Letter "L" » Lord Chesterfield Quotes
«If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.»
«Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to conceal than a crime. Many a man will confess his crimes to a friend; but I never knew a man that would tell his silly weaknesses to his most intimate one.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| Keywords:
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«Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.»
«Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them.»
«Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| About:
World
| Keywords:
flexibility, manners, oil, suppleness
«The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| Keywords:
breeding, brute, cynic, disagreeable, everyone else, nitpicker, philosopher, scholar, soldier, The Philosopher, The Soldier
«Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.»
«A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who, by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning would have proved a coward»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| About:
Cowardice,
Heroism
| Keywords:
good night, Hero of, indigestion, rainy, restless, supper
«Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| Keywords:
adaptation, adaptations, aliment, branches, Branches of, climate, nutritious, regimen, regularities, regularity, retiring, temperance, The Hours, The Variations, variation, variations
«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 only be a greater knave as he grows older.»
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