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Lord Chesterfield Quotes
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.
Lord Chesterfield
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Author Details:
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Statesman Quotes
Category:
British Statesman Quotes
Date of Birth:
September 22
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1694
Year of Death:
1773
Nationality:
British
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Select Lord Chesterfield Quotations:
When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.
Lord Chesterfield
The more one works, the more willing one is to work.
Lord Chesterfield
You must look into people as well as at them.
Lord Chesterfield
The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.
Lord Chesterfield
He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
Lord Chesterfield
Take the tone of the company you are in.
Lord Chesterfield
If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.
Lord Chesterfield
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In matters of religion and matrimony...
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Persist and persevere, and you will...
Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No...
Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not...
Regularity in the hours of rising...
Remember, as long as you live...
Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the...
Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours...
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The heart never grows better by...
The less one has to do...
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The only solid and lasting peace...
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There is nothing that people bear...
To govern mankind, one must not...
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