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12663 quotesAdvice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Advice
Lord Chesterfield
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Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.
Dress
Lord Chesterfield
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Be wiser than other people, if you can; but do not tell them so.
Discretion
Lord Chesterfield
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Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word.
Character
Lord Chesterfield
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Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.
Manners
Lord Chesterfield
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Character must be kept bright as well as clean.
Character
Lord Chesterfield
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Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
Laughter
Lord Chesterfield
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In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.
Laughter
Lord Chesterfield
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In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.
Scandal
Lord Chesterfield
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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
Knowledge
Lord Chesterfield
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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Knowledge
Lord Chesterfield
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Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.
Retirement
Lord Chesterfield
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Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world.
Manners
Lord Chesterfield
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Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
Heart
Lord Chesterfield
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Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
Modesty
Lord Chesterfield
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Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
Egotism
Lord Chesterfield
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Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
Perseverance
Lord Chesterfield
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Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.
Literature
Lord Chesterfield
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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.
Time and Time Management
Lord Chesterfield
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Take the tone of the company you are in.
Conformity
Lord Chesterfield
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The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
Divorce
Lord Chesterfield
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To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
Anecdotes
Lord Chesterfield
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A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
Speakers and Speaking
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
Philosophers and Philosophy
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
Puritans
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun