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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.


Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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LORD CHESTERFIELD If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of fo...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a disco...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the wo...
LORD CHESTERFIELD In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and v...
LORD CHESTERFIELD To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
LORD CHESTERFIELD It is commonly said that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom m...
LORD CHESTERFIELD If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.
LORD CHESTERFIELD He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
LORD CHESTERFIELD The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's s...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, t...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
LORD CHESTERFIELD An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.
LORD CHESTERFIELD The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, t...
LORD CHESTERFIELD A constant smirk upon the face, and a whiffing activity of the body, are strong indications of futil...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score...
LORD CHESTERFIELD I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Whoever is admitted or sought for, in company, upon any other account than that of his merit and man...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning...
LORD CHESTERFIELD I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetit...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Be wiser than other people, if you can; but do not tell them so.
LORD CHESTERFIELD As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and e...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake o...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always th...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the t...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Take the tone of the company you are in.
LORD CHESTERFIELD For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the de...
LORD CHESTERFIELD If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sobe...
LORD CHESTERFIELD A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to Dispatch than Method.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends
LORD CHESTERFIELD Wrongs are often forgiven; contempt never
LORD CHESTERFIELD Ridicule is the best test of truth
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