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LORD SHAWCROSS You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press... LORD BUCKLEY I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimatel... LORD CHESTERFIELD A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones. LORD CHESTERFIELD Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will... LORD CHESTERFIELD Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleas... LORD CHESTERFIELD The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and ... LORD JEFFREY Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible. LORD CHESTERFIELD It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the lov... LORD MELBOURNE Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story tha... LORD CHESTERFIELD A professional whose job it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand. LORD NORTHCLIFFE Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. This is ... LORD MELBOURNE It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor. LORD SHAFTESBURY I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor. LORD NELSON A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. LORD CHESTERFIELD Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. LORD CHESTERFIELD Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and you... LORD CHESTERFIELD Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners. LORD CHESTERFIELD Wear your learning like a watch and do not pull it out merely to show you have it. If you are asked ... LORD CHESTERFIELD One should always think of what one is about: when one is learning, one should not think of play: an... LORD CHESTERFIELD Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watc... LORD CHESTERFIELD Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true Wit or good ... LORD CHESTERFIELD Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. LORD CHESTERFIELD Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldo... LORD CHESTERFIELD In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter. LORD CHESTERFIELD Animals are considered as property only. To destroy or to abuse them, from malice to the proprietor,... SHIRLEY LORD It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same. LORD MELBOURNE Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the gre... LORD MELBOURNE