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Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
Lord Chesterfield

Sure, Praise, Modesty

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
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Time, Today, True

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.
Lord Chesterfield

Everything, Give, Laziness

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
Lord Chesterfield

Whatever, Worth

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
Lord Chesterfield

Age, Fear, Liar

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
Lord Chesterfield

Wisdom, Art, Wise

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
Lord Chesterfield

Sad, Humor, Good

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
Lord Chesterfield

Great, Mind, Cannot

Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.
Lord Chesterfield

Time, Same, Resentment

Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.
Lord Chesterfield

Fitness, Health, Simple

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.
Lord Chesterfield

Good, Wife, Together

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
Lord Chesterfield

Nothing, Forgive, Insult

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
Lord Chesterfield

Sex, Ridiculous, Pleasure

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
Lord Chesterfield

Find, Possible, Persevere

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
Lord Chesterfield

Laughter, Manners, Ill

Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.
Lord Chesterfield

Dark, Both, Hear

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
Lord Chesterfield

Insult, Forgotten, Injury

A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.
Lord Chesterfield

Forward, Serious, Sense

A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
Lord Chesterfield

Wise, Live, Within

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.
Lord Chesterfield

Learning, Learned, Show

Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.
Lord Chesterfield

Advice, Welcome, Seldom

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.
Lord Chesterfield

Good, Live, Long

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Lord Chesterfield

Today, Tomorrow, Put

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
Lord Chesterfield

Nature, Good, Others

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
Lord Chesterfield

Reading, Pleasure, Cow

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Statesman

Born: September 22, 1694

Died: 1773

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