Lord Chesterfield Quotes - Page 17

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• When a man is once in fashion, all he does is right.

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  Fashion, Men, Doe

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• Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.

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  Inferiority, Your Best Friend, Enjoy

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• Spirit is now a very fashionable word: to act with Spirit, to speak with Spirit, means only to act rashly, and to talk indiscreetly. An able man shows his Spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid.

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  Passion, Mean, Men

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

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• Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other, and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so

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  Distance, Night, Fool

  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.162

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• Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both.

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  Good Man, Return, Manners

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.121

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• Enjoy pleasures, but let them be your own, and then you will taste them.

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  Taste, Pleasure, Enjoy

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.176

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• We are in truth, more than half what we are by imitation. The great point is to choose good models and to study them with care.

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  Example, Half, Care

  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.321

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• A wise man will live as much within his wit as his income.... Bear this truth always in your mind, that you may be admired for your wit, if you have any; but that nothing but good sense and good qualities can make you be loved.

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  Wise, Men, Mind

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• Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.

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  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  Lord Chesterfield (2008). “The Modern Chesterfield”, p.34, Wildside Press LLC

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• The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

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  Country, Nature, Travel

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.218

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• Great merit or great failings will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked, in the general run of the world. Examine yourself, why you like such and such people and dislike such and such others; and you will find that those different sentiments proceed from very slight causes.

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  Running, People, Different

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• A certain degree of ceremony is a necessary outwork of manners, as well as of religion; it keeps the forward and petulant at a proper distance, and is a very small restraint to the sensible and to the well-bred part of the world.

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  Distance, Degrees, World

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• A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh.

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  Laughing, Gentleman, Heard

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.234, Oxford University Press

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• There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.

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• Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but let them feel at the same time the steadiness of your just resentment for there is a great difference between bearing malice, which is always ungenerous, and a resolute self-defense which is ever prudent and justifiable.

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  Time, Enemy, Resentment

  "The Modern Chesterfield".

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• There is hardly any place or any company where you may not gain knowledge, if you please; almost everybody knows some one thing, and is glad to talk about that one thing.

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  Knowledge, May, Gains

  Lord Chesterfield (2008). “The Modern Chesterfield”, p.71, Wildside Press LLC

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• Those whom you can make like themselves better will, I promise you, like you very well.

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  Promise, I Promise, Like You

  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.353

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• There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

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  Insult To Injury, People, Forgiving

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.87, OUP Oxford

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• The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.

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  Men, Differences, Laughing

  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.135

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• In nature the most violent passions are silent; in tragedy they must speak and speak with dignity too.

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  Passion, Tragedy, Dignity

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.249, Oxford University Press

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• There are people who indulge themselves in a sort of lying, which they reckon innocent, and which in one sense is so; for it hurtsnobody but themselves. This sort of lying is the spurious offspring of vanity, begotten upon folly.

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  Lying, Vanity, People

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.196, Oxford University Press

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• Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.

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  Men, Dancing, Ballet

  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.145

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• I heartily wish you, in the plain home-spun style, a great number of happy new years, well employed in forming both your mind andyour manners, to be useful and agreeable to yourself, your country, and your friends.

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  Country, New Year, Home

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• Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.

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  Giving, Doe, Pleasure

  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.351

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• It must be owned, that the Graces do not seem to be natives of Great Britain; and I doubt, the best of us here have more of rough than polished diamond.

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  Grace, Doubt, British

  'Letters to his Son' (1774) 18 November 1748

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