Lord Chesterfield Quotes - Page 18

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• Deafness produces bizarre effects, reversing the natural order of things; the interchange of letters is the conversation of the deaf, and the only link with society. I would be in despair, for instance, over seeing you speak, but, instead, I am only too happy to hear you write.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Writing, Order, Despair

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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

  Vices, Cottages, Court

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.324

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• Ties of blood are not always ties of friendship; but friendship founded on merit, on esteem, and on mutual trust, becomes more vital and more tender when strengthened by the ties of blood.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Friendship, Blood, Ties

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• I really think next to the consciousness of doing a good action, that of doing a civil one is the most pleasing; and the epithet which I should covet the most next to that of Aristides, would be that of well-bred.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Thinking, Next, Would Be

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.171, Oxford University Press

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• Next to clothes being fine, they should be well made, and worn easily; for a man is only the less genteel for a fine coat, if, in wearing it, he shows a regard for it, and is not as easy in it as if it was a plain one.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Clothes, Coats

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• Learning is acquired by reading books; much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various editions of them.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Book, Reading, Learning

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

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• Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Self, Ego, Veils

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.293

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• In friendship, as well as in love, the mind is often the dupe of the heart.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Love, Friendship, Heart

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