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LORD CHESTERFIELD Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to Dispatch than Method.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD Know the true value of time: snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears, and depend upon it, you will catch ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools
LORD CHESTERFIELD Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and kee...
LORD CHESTERFIELD [Common sense] is the best sense I know of.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Most people enjoy the inferiority of their friends.
LORD CHESTERFIELD There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good fo...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.
LORD CHESTERFIELD I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
LORD CHESTERFIELD The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, an...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of thin...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in the closet.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do no...
LORD CHESTERFIELD If you will please people, you must please them in your own way.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever sed...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The more one works, the more willing one is to work.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD An injury is much sooner forgiven than an insult
LORD CHESTERFIELD Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Whenever I go to an opera, I leave my sense and reason at the door with my half guinea, and deliver ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, mak...
LORD CHESTERFIELD If you are not in fashion, you are nobody. - "Letter to his son", April 30, 1750.
LORD CHESTERFIELD History is a confused heap of facts.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Wear your learning, like a watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull it out and strike it, merely ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
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