Lord Chesterfield
Lord Chesterfield
Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield KG PCwas a British statesman, and a man of letters, and wit. He was born in London to Philip Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Chesterfield, and Lady Elizabeth Savile, and known as Lord Stanhope until the death of his father, in 1726. Educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, he subsequently embarked on the Grand Tour of the Continent, to complete his education as a nobleman, by exposure to the cultural legacies of Classical antiquity and...
ambition pride your-side
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
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Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
long honor world
Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.
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As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.
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Character must be kept bright as well as clean.
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If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.
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In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.
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Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.
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Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.
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To govern mankind, one must not overrate them.
book reading knowledge
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
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Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.
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If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.
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Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.