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• Instead of giving in to the greatest misfortune that can happen at my age, deafness, I busy myself in searching out all possible compensations, and I apply myself much more to all the amusements that are here within my grasp.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Giving, Age, Amusement

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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.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, People, Shining

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.345, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Friendship, Best Friend, Funny Friend

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• Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Mind, Glitter, Laziness

  'Letters to his Son' (1774) 20 July 1749

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• Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Age, Decay, Youth

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.142

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• The late Président de Montesquieu told me that he knew how to be blind--he had been so for such a long time--but I swear that I do not know how to be deaf: I cannot get used to it, and I am as humiliated and distressed by it today as I was during the first week. No philosophy in the world can palliate deafness.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Philosophy, Long, World

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• So much are our minds influenced by the accidents of our bodies, that every man is more the man of the day than a regular and consequential character.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Character, Men, Personality

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.207

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• Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to dispatch than method.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Business, Soul, Method

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.149

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• There never were, since the creation of the world, two cases exactly parallel.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Two, World, Earth

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.66, Oxford University Press

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• A man who tells nothing, or who tells all, will equally have nothing told him.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Equality, Men

  "Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1774.

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• Ugliness is a letter of credit for some special purposes.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Special, Purpose, Credit

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• In your friendships and in your enmities let your confidence and your hostilities have certain bounds; make not the former dangerous, nor the latter irreconcilable. There are strange vicissitudes in business.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Friendship, Enmity, Strange

  Lord Chesterfield (2008). “The Modern Chesterfield”, p.246, Wildside Press LLC

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• Everything is worth seeing once, and the more one sees the less one either wonders or admires.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Experience, Wonder, Admire

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.185

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• Elegance of manner is the outgrowth of refined and exalted sense.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Elegance, Exalted, Refined

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• Should you be unfortunate enough to have vices, you may, to a certain degree, even dignify them by a strict observance of decorum;at least they will lose something of their natural turpitude.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Vices, Degrees, May

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.381, Oxford Paperbacks

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• It is reported here that the King of Prussia has gone mad and has been locked up. There would be nothing bad about that: at leastthat might of his would no longer be a menace, and you could breathe freely for a while. I much prefer madmen who are locked up to those who are not.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Kings, Mad, Prussia

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• There is a sort of veteran women of condition, who, having lived always in the grand mode, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Women, Years, Together

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• Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known, than their crimes; and, if you hint to a man that you think him silly, ignorant, or even ill-bred or awkward, he will hate you more, and longer, than if you tell him plainly that you think him a rogue.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Hate, Silly, Men

  "Manners and speech or maxims extracted from Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1884.

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• Take rather than give the tone to the company you are in. If you have parts you will show them more or less upon every subject; and if you have not, you had better talk sillily upon a subject of other people's than of your own choosing.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Giving, People, Tone

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.102, Oxford University Press

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• It seems to me that your doctor [Tronchin] is more of a philosopher than a physician. As for me, I much prefer a doctor who is anoptimist and who gives me remedies that will improve my health. Philosophical consolations are, after all, useless against real ailments. I know only two kinds of sickness--physical and moral: all the others are purely in the imagination.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Real, Philosophical, Doctors

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• All I can say, in answer to this kind queries [of friends] is that I have not the distemper called the Plague; but that I have allthe plagues of old age, and of a shattered carcase.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Health, Age, Answers

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• The most familiar and intimate habitudes, connections, friendships, require a degree of good-breeding both to preserve and cement them.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Friendship, Degrees, Connections

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.174, Oxford University Press

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• A joker is near akin to a buffoon; and neither of them is the least related to wit.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Wit, Related, Buffoons

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.141, Oxford University Press

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• Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Happiness, Grief, Men

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• Whatever poets may write, or fools believe, of rural innocence and truth, and of the perfidy of courts, this is most undoubtedly true,--that shepherds and ministers are both men; their natures and passions the same, the modes of them only different.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Believe, Passion, Writing

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.80, Oxford University Press

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