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7190 quotesHe makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
Persuasion
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 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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Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.
Belief
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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Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
Friends and Friendship
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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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Books - Reading
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.
Angels
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Arts and Artists
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
Adversity
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
Experience
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.
Wealth
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
Problems
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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My country wrong or right, is like saying my mother, drunk or sober.
Patriotism
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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One may understand the Cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
Knowledge
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
Argument
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Silence is the unbearable repartee.
Silence
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.
Status
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.
Cosmos
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
Terrorism
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
Books - Reading
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