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Lord Chesterfield Quotes

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

Biography

Author Profession: Statesman
Nationality: British
Born: September 22, 1694
Died: 1773

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When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.
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The more one works, the more willing one is to work.
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You must look into people as well as at them.
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The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.
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He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
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Take the tone of the company you are in.
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If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.
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